Benchmark: setAttribute vs assignment (=) - MeasureThat.net

Script Preparation code:

var anchor = document.createElement("a");
var input = document.createElement("input");

Tests:

<a> setAttribute
anchor.setAttribute("href", "https://localhost/");
<a> assignment (=)
anchor.href = "https://localhost/";
<input> assignment (=)
input.value = "Hello! 🥺";
<input> setAttribute
input.setAttribute("value", "Hello! 🥺");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
<a> setAttribute
<a> assignment (=)
<input> assignment (=)
<input> setAttribute

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 114 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
<a> setAttribute	5378189.0 Ops/sec
<a> assignment (=)	5124156.0 Ops/sec
<input> assignment (=)	2126101.0 Ops/sec
<input> setAttribute	5587345.0 Ops/sec