Run results for: jQuery attr vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0

Browser: Firefox 118

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery attr	954201.1 Ops/sec
setAttribute	3393627.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="el" class="test"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var $el = $("#el");
var el = $el.get(0);

Tests: