Run results for: inheritance new vs Object.create

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.82 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 93

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new operator	35183.7 Ops/sec
Object.create method	34811.5 Ops/sec

Tests:

new operator
function foo(){} foo.prototype = { foo_prop: "foo val" }; function bar(){} var proto = new foo; proto.bar_prop = "bar val"; bar.prototype = proto; var inst = new bar; console.log(inst.foo_prop); console.log(inst.bar_prop);
Object.create method
function foo(){} foo.prototype = { foo_prop: "foo val" }; function bar(){} var proto = Object.create( foo.prototype ); proto.bar_prop = "bar val"; bar.prototype = proto; var inst = new bar; console.log(inst.foo_prop); console.log(inst.bar_prop);