Benchmark: Object Deep Copy with deep clone

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.10/lodash.js"></script> <script src="https://unpkg.com/babel-standalone@6/babel.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

function recursiveDeepCopy(obj) {
  return Object.keys(obj).reduce((v, d) => Object.assign(v, {
    [d]: (obj[d].constructor === Object) ? recursiveDeepCopy(obj[d]) : obj[d]
  }), {});
}

function deepClone(object) {
    let result;
    let i;
    let l;
    if (typeof object !== 'object') {
        return object;
    }
    if (!object) {
        return object;
    }
    if (object.constructor === Array) {
        result = [];
        l = object.length;
        for (i = 0; i < l; i++) {
            result[i] = deepClone(object[i]);
        }
        return result;
    }
    result = {};
    for (i in object) {
        result[i] = deepClone(object[i]);
    }
    return result;
}

function jsonDeepCopy(o) {
  return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(o));
}

var dimensions = [{
  "dimensions": [{
    "runtime": {
      "common": {
        "client": null,
        "server": null
      }
    }
  }, {
    "device": {
      "android": null,
      "blackberry": null,
      "iemobile": null,
      "iphone": null,
      "ipad": null,
      "kindle": null,
      "opera-mini": null,
      "palm": null
    }
  }, {
    "environment": {
      "development": {
        "dev": null,
        "test": null
      },
      "production": {
        "stage": null,
        "prod": null
      }
    }
  }, {
    "lang": {
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        "ar-MA": null,
        "ar-SA": null,
        "ar-EG": null
      },
      "bn": {
        "bn-IN": null
      },
      "ca": {
        "ca-ES": null
      },
      "cs": {
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      },
      "da": {
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      },
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        "de-DE": null
      },
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      },
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        "en-BG": null,
        "en-CA": null,
        "en-GB": null,
        "en-GY": null,
        "en-HK": null,
        "en-IE": null,
        "en-IN": null,
        "en-MY": null,
        "en-NZ": null,
        "en-PH": null,
        "en-SG": null,
        "en-US": null,
        "en-ZA": null
      },
      "es": {
        "es-AR": null,
        "es-BO": null,
        "es-CL": null,
        "es-CO": null,
        "es-EC": null,
        "es-ES": null,
        "es-MX": null,
        "es-PE": null,
        "es-PY": null,
        "es-US": null,
        "es-UY": null,
        "es-VE": null
      },
      "fi": {
        "fi-FI": null
      },
      "fr": {
        "fr-BE": null,
        "fr-CA": null,
        "fr-FR": null,
        "fr-GF": null
      },
      "hi": {
        "hi-IN": null
      },
      "hu": {
        "hu-HU": null
      },
      "id": {
        "id-ID": null
      },
      "it": {
        "it-IT": null
      },
      "ja": {
        "ja-JP": null
      },
      "kn": {
        "kn-IN": null
      },
      "ko": {
        "ko-KR": null
      },
      "ml": {
        "ml-IN": null
      },
      "mr": {
        "mr-IN": null
      },
      "ms": {
        "ms-MY": null
      },
      "nb": {
        "nb-NO": null
      },
      "nl": {
        "nl-BE": null,
        "nl-NL": null,
        "nl-SR": null
      },
      "pl": {
        "pl-PL": null
      },
      "pt": {
        "pt-BR": null
      },
      "ro": {
        "ro-RO": null
      },
      "ru": {
        "ru-RU": null
      },
      "sv": {
        "sv-SE": null
      },
      "ta": {
        "ta-IN": null
      },
      "te": {
        "te-IN": null
      },
      "th": {
        "th-TH": null
      },
      "tr": {
        "tr-TR": null
      },
      "vi": {
        "vi-VN": null
      },
      "zh": {
        "zh-Hans": {
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        },
        "zh-Hant": {
          "zh-Hant-HK": null,
          "zh-Hant-TW": null
        }
      }
    }
  }]
}]

Tests:

Recursive Deep Copy
var dimensionsCopy = recursiveDeepCopy(dimensions);
JSON Deep Copy
var dimensionsCopy = jsonDeepCopy(dimensions);
lodash clone
var dimensionsCopy = _.cloneDeep(dimensions);
deepclone
var dimensionsCopy = deepClone(dimensions);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Recursive Deep Copy
JSON Deep Copy
lodash clone
deepclone

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 4 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.102 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 85 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
Recursive Deep Copy	307750.5 Ops/sec
JSON Deep Copy	35505.8 Ops/sec
lodash clone	14009.0 Ops/sec
deepclone	27707.8 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 6 months ago):

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**Code Snippet Analysis**

The provided JavaScript code snippet appears to be a template for benchmarking different methods of copying or cloning an object. It defines four test cases:

1. `Recursive Deep Copy`
2. `JSON Deep Copy` (using `jsonDeepCopy` function)
3. `lodash clone` (using Lodash's `cloneDeep` function)
4. `deepclone`

The code uses the `dimensions` object as a sample input for these tests.

**Benchmark Results Analysis**

The benchmark results are provided in two formats:

1. **Raw JSON Format**: The first part of the response is a raw JSON string containing an array of objects with various keys, including `Benchmark Definition`, `Test Name`, and others.
2. **Human-Readable Format**: The second part of the response is a human-readable format with more descriptive field names.

Both formats seem to contain the benchmark results for each test case, along with some metadata such as browser, device platform, operating system, executions per second, and test name.

**Observations**

From the provided data, I can observe that:

* The `Recursive Deep Copy` test appears to be the fastest among all four tests.
* The `JSON Deep Copy` test is slightly slower than the `recursiveDeepCopy` implementation but faster than the `lodash clone` and `deepclone` implementations.

Please note that this analysis is based on limited data, and more information would be required to draw more concrete conclusions about the performance of these different cloning methods.

Related benchmarks:

Object Deep Copy with deep clone (version: 0)

Produce a deep copy of a Javascript object where nested objects are not simply references to the originals.

Comparing performance of: Recursive Deep Copy vs JSON Deep Copy vs lodash clone vs deepclone

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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Recursive Deep Copy

JSON Deep Copy

lodash clone

deepclone

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 6 months ago):