Run results for: setAttribute vs data property

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0

Browser: Firefox 57

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
TextNode data	18084.5 Ops/sec
Div setAttribute	3495.4 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var textNode = document.createTextNode('');
var div = document.createElement('div');

Tests: