Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone vs Ramda Clone vs rfdc

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 73

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	365705.9 Ops/sec
Json clone	155684.5 Ops/sec
Ramda clone	554059.7 Ops/sec
rfdc clone	1655991.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ramda/0.25.0/ramda.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/rfdc@1.1.4/index.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var MyObject = {
  description: 'Creates a deep copy of source, which should be an object or an array.',
  myNumber: 123456789,
  myBoolean: true,
  jayson: {
    stringify: 'JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string....',
    parse: 'JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string...'
  }
};

var myCopy = null;

Tests:

Lodash cloneDeep
myCopy = _.cloneDeep(MyObject);
Json clone
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));
Ramda clone
myCopy = R.clone(MyObject);
rfdc clone
myCopy = rfdc(MyObject);

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone vs Ramda Clone vs rfdc

Lodash cloneDeep

Json clone

Ramda clone

rfdc clone