Run results for: svg line element setAttribute vs. className.baseVal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 80

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.4

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
className.baseVal	2639.9 Ops/sec
setAttribute	920.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><defs><symbol><line></line></symbol></defs></svg>

Script Preparation code:

var element = document.getElementsByTagName("line")[0];

Tests:

className.baseVal
var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.className.baseVal = "bar"; }
setAttribute
var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("class", "bar"); }