Run results for: jQuery data VS jQuery attr data

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_2_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.128 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Mac OS X 11.2.2

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery + data	112837.9 Ops/sec
jQuery + attr data	113681.5 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') );