Run results for: setAttribute vs style

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.86 YaBrowser/20.8.0.893 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36

Browser: Yandex Browser 20

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.5

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
setAttribute	37.3 Ops/sec
style	72.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo"></div>

Tests:

setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("style", "width: "+i+"px; height: "+i+"px;"); }
style
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { element.style.width = i+"px"; element.style.height = i+"px"; }