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Run results for: getAttribute vs dataset

Compare setAttribute to dataset

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Safari/605.1.15
Safari 17
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
2 months ago
Test name Executions per second
getAttribute 88309.9 Ops/sec
dataset 1856.0 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<div id="foo" data-foo="foo_id"></div>
Tests:

  • getAttribute

     
    var element = document.getElementById("foo");
    var i = 10000;
    while (i--) {
        var foo = element.getAttribute("data-foo");
    }

  • dataset

     
    var element = document.getElementById("foo");
    var i = 10000;
    while (i--) {
        var foo = element.dataset.foo;
    }