Run results for: Way of retrieving nullable value

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 67

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.4

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash when not null	1866468.0 Ops/sec
Try... Catch w/o Exception	6378297.0 Ops/sec
Lodash when undefined	1623087.0 Ops/sec
Try... Catch w/ Exception	6413549.0 Ops/sec
Native	12444920.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/lodash/4.16.0/lodash.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var person = {name: {first: 'Johnson', last: 'Wang' }, lastName: 'Corcino Alejo'};

var stringValue = (expression, defaultValue) => {
  try {
    return expression();
  } catch (ex) {
    return defaultValue || '';
  }
}

Tests:

Lodash when not null
_.get(person, 'name.last');
Try... Catch w/o Exception
stringValue( () => person.name.last );
Lodash when undefined
_.get(person, 'name.last.age');
Try... Catch w/ Exception
stringValue( () => person.name.last.age );
Native
person.name.last

Run results for: Way of retrieving nullable value

Lodash when not null

Try... Catch w/o Exception

Lodash when undefined

Try... Catch w/ Exception

Native