Benchmark: Object.assign vs prototype

Tests:

Extend prototype
for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { String.prototype.toBinary = function () { let output = ''; for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) { output += this[i].charCodeAt(0).toString(2) + " "; } return output; } String.prototype.toHex = function () { let output = ''; for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) { output += this[i].charCodeAt(0).toString(8) + " "; } return output; } }
Object.assign
for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { Object.assign(String.prototype, { toBinary() { let output = ''; for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) { output += this[i].charCodeAt(0).toString(2) + " "; } return output; }, toHex() { let output = ''; for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) { output += this[i].charCodeAt(0).toString(8) + " "; } return output; } }); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Extend prototype
Object.assign

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 108 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

Test name	Executions per second
Extend prototype	6312.2 Ops/sec
Object.assign	5109.9 Ops/sec

Object.assign vs prototype (version: 0)