Run results for: Object.assign vs prototype

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0

Browser: Firefox 51

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Extend prototype	49740.5 Ops/sec
Object.assign	2263.4 Ops/sec

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; } }); }