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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763

Browser: Edge 18.17763

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
className.baseVal	1678.1 Ops/sec
setAttribute	462.8 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"); }