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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:79.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/79.0

Browser: Firefox 79

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
className.baseVal	2290.4 Ops/sec
setAttribute	8292.6 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"); }