Run results for: simpleStringify vs JSON.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0

Browser: Firefox 99

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
simpleStringify	814239.2 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	2915480.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function simpleStringify(o) {
  let cache = [];
  let data = JSON.stringify(o, function(key, value) {
    if (typeof value === "object" && value !== null) {
      if (cache.indexOf(value) !== -1) {
        // Circular reference found, discard key
        return;
      }
      // Store value in our collection
      cache.push(value);
    }
    return value;
  });
  cache = null;
  return data;
}
var testData = {"bar":"foo"}

Tests:

simpleStringify
simpleStringify(testData);
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(testData)