Run results for: Data Properties vs. Accessor Properties vs. Getter / Setter Methods

The purpose of this benchmark is to determine the performance differences between data properties, accessor properties and getters / setter functions.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/96.0.4664.116 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 96

Operating system: iOS 14.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Read from data property	17139566.0 Ops/sec
Write to data property	16994148.0 Ops/sec
Read from accessor method	8675330.0 Ops/sec
Write to mutator method	7637408.5 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property	8879412.0 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property	7045360.5 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property on prototype	8613373.0 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property on prototype	6218162.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var data = {
  property: property
};

var property = undefined;

var method = {
  getProperty: function() {
    return property;
  },

  setProperty: function(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};

var objectLiteralAccessor = {
  get property() {
    return property;
  },
  set property(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};

function Class() {
}

Class.prototype = {
  get property() {
    return property;
  },
  set property(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};
    
var prototypeAccessor = new Class();

Tests:

Read from data property
var value = data.property;
Write to data property
data.property = true;
Read from accessor method
var value = method.getProperty();
Write to mutator method
method.setProperty(true);
Read from object literal property
var value = objectLiteralAccessor.property;
Write to object literal property
objectLiteralAccessor.property = true;
Read from object literal property on prototype
var value = prototypeAccessor.property;
Write to object literal property on prototype
prototypeAccessor.property = true;

Run results for: Data Properties vs. Accessor Properties vs. Getter / Setter Methods

The purpose of this benchmark is to determine the performance differences between data properties, accessor properties and getters / setter functions.

Read from data property

Write to data property

Read from accessor method

Write to mutator method

Read from object literal property

Write to object literal property

Read from object literal property on prototype

Write to object literal property on prototype