Run results for: dataset set test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.87 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 98

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
dataset set	1064232.8 Ops/sec
setAttribute	1073280.2 Ops/sec
jQuery .data()	33340.0 Ops/sec
jQuery .attr()	34084.7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<h3 id="data" data-test="text">kipr202 header</h3>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha512-bLT0Qm9VnAYZDflyKcBaQ2gg0hSYNQrJ8RilYldYQ1FxQYoCLtUjuuRuZo+fjqhx/qtq/1itJ0C2ejDxltZVFg==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Tests:

dataset set
window.onload = function() { document.querySelector("h3#data").dataset.test = "5"; }
setAttribute
window.onload = function() { document.querySelector("h3#data").setAttribute("test", "5"); }
jQuery .data()
$(document).ready(function() { $("h3#data").data("test", "5"); });
jQuery .attr()
$(document).ready(function() { $("h3#data").attr("data-test", "5"); });

Run results for: dataset set test

dataset set

setAttribute

jQuery .data()

jQuery .attr()