Run results for: Delete vs set undefined Properties

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.93 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 96

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Deleted	3222326.2 Ops/sec
Set undefined	1731281.2 Ops/sec
Iterate deleted	13672930.0 Ops/sec
Iterate set undefined	2882418.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var objA = {a:1, b:2, c:3, d:4};
var objB = {a:1, b:2, c:3, d:4};
delete objA.a;
delete objA.b;
delete objA.c;
delete objA.d;
objB.a = undefined;
objB.b = undefined;
objB.c = undefined;
objB.d = undefined;

function doNothing(objin){}

Tests:

Deleted
Object.entries(objA);
Set undefined
Object.entries(objB);
Iterate deleted
for(let a in objA) doNothing(a)
Iterate set undefined
for(let b in objB) doNothing(b)

Run results for: Delete vs set undefined Properties

Deleted

Set undefined

Iterate deleted

Iterate set undefined