Benchmark: JavaScript spread operator vs Object.assign performance vs. Native Assignment

Tests:

Using the spread operator
const firstObject = { sampleData: 'Hello world' }; const secondObject = { moreData: 'foo bar' }; const finalObject = { ...firstObject, ...secondObject };
Using Object.assign
const firstObject = { sampleData: 'Hello world' }; const secondObject = { moreData: 'foo bar' }; const finalObject = Object.assign(firstObject, secondObject);
Using Native assignment.
const firstObject = { sampleData: 'Hello world' }; const secondObject = { moreData: 'foo bar' }; firstObject.moreData = 'foo bar';

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Using the spread operator
Using Object.assign
Using Native assignment.

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 28 days ago):

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**Benchmark Overview**

The benchmark compares the performance of three ways to merge objects in JavaScript: using the spread operator (`...`), `Object.assign()`, and native assignment (`firstObject.moreData = 'foo bar';`). The goal is to determine which approach is the fastest.

**Options Compared**

1. **Using the spread operator (`...`)**:
	* Pros: Modern and concise syntax, easy to read and write.
	* Cons: May incur additional overhead due to the creation of a new object or array.
2. **Using `Object.assign()`**:
	* Pros: Standardized and widely supported, can handle more complex data merging scenarios.
	* Cons: Can be slower than native assignment for simple cases, has a higher memory footprint.
3. **Native Assignment (`firstObject.moreData = 'foo bar';`)**:
	* Pros: Fastest execution time among the three options, has the lowest memory overhead.
	* Cons: Non-standard syntax, may not be readable or maintainable for complex cases.

**Library Usage**

There is no explicit library usage in the benchmark definition. However, it's worth noting that `Object.assign()` relies on the `Object.prototype` property, which might not be the case in all browsers or environments.

**Special JavaScript Features/Syntax**

None mentioned in the provided data.

**Other Considerations**

* The benchmark uses a fixed number of objects to merge (`firstObject` and `secondObject`), which may not accurately represent real-world scenarios where objects have different structures and properties.
* The benchmark only tests simple assignment of a string value, ignoring more complex merging cases like array or object property updates.

**Alternatives**

Other alternatives for merging objects in JavaScript include:

* Lodash's `merge()` function
* Ramda's `merge` function
* JSON merge libraries like json-merge or json-migrate

These alternatives may offer different performance profiles, syntaxes, and feature sets compared to the options tested in this benchmark.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 6 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.92 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 69 on Mac OS X 10.12.6

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Test name	Executions per second
Using the spread operator	2381782.8 Ops/sec
Using Object.assign	3596641.8 Ops/sec
Using Native assignment.	352089024.0 Ops/sec

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Using the spread operator

Using Object.assign

Using Native assignment.

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

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Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 28 days ago):