jQuery .data() performance vs .attr() performance (v113)

Revision 113 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="theInput" data-foo="bar" value="foo"></input>
<script>
  var theInput = $('#theInput');
</script>

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Attribute get
theInput.attr('data-foo');
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Data get
theInput.data('foo');
ready
Direct data get
$.data(theInput, 'foo');
ready
DOM getAttribute get
theInput[0].getAttribute("foo")
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