Run results for: dataset vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0

Browser: Firefox 114

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
dataset	2728.0 Ops/sec
setAttribute	5569.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<div id='set' data-open="0"></div>

Tests:

dataset
const elem = document.getElementById("set"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { elem.dataset.open = "1"; }
setAttribute
const elem = document.getElementById("set"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { elem.setAttribute('data-open', '1') }