Run results for: setAttribute vs svgtransform

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 104

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
setAttribute	155.4 Ops/sec
transform	381.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<svg>
  <rect id="foo" transform="matrix(1,0,0,1,0,0)" />
</svg>

Script Preparation code:

var element = document.getElementById("foo");
var matrix = element.transform.baseVal.getItem(0).matrix;

Tests:

setAttribute
var i = 10000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("transform", `translate(${i},${i})`); }
transform
var i = 10000; while (i--) { matrix.e = i; matrix.f = i; }