Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0
Firefox 88
Mac OS X 10.15
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
SetAttribute Single 15318.3 Ops/sec
SetAttribute Multi 8730.2 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<div id="foo"></div>
Tests:
  • SetAttribute Single

     
    var element = document.getElementById("foo");
    var i = 1000;
    while (i--) {
        element.setAttribute("class", "bar");
    }
  • SetAttribute Multi

     
    var element = document.getElementById("foo");
    var i = 1000;
    while (i--) {
        element.setAttribute("class", "one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen");
    }