style vs cssText vs setAttribute (v2)

Revision 2 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<style>
    #test div {
        float:left;
        }
</style>

<div id="test"></div>

Setup

var $test = $("#test")
      , cssText = typeof(document.createElement("div").style.cssText) != "undefined"
      , elems = []
      , colors = "#f88 #8f8 #88f #ff8 #8ff #f8f".split(" ")
      , el
      , text
      , count = 0
    
    test.innerHTML = ""
    
    for (var i=0; i<100; i++) {
        var el = $("<div>")
        elems.push(el)
        $test.append(el)
    }

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
style
for (var i=0; i<100; i++) {
    el = elems[i][0]
    el.style.width  = (i%10)+"px"
    el.style.height = (i%10)+"px"
    el.style.background = colors[++count%colors.length]
}
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style 2
test.style.display = 'none';
for (var i=0; i<100; i++) {
    el = elems[i][0]
    el.style.width  = (i%10)+"px"
    el.style.height = (i%10)+"px"
    el.style.background = colors[++count%colors.length]
}
test.style.display = 'block';
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