Run results for: jQuery data VS jQuery attr data

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.5 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 15

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery + data	284679.1 Ops/sec
jQuery + attr data	275630.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.0.slim.min.js"></script>
<div class="flag"></div>

Tests:

jQuery + data
var flag = $('.flag'); flag.data('flag','iran'); console.log( flag.data('flag') );
jQuery + attr data
var flag = $('.flag'); flag.attr('data-flag','iran'); console.log( flag.attr('data-flag') );