Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON parse+stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/98.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Mobile Safari 15

Operating system: iOS 15.3.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	891000.4 Ops/sec
Json stringify	551814.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var MyObject = {
  description: 'Creates a deep copy of source, which should be an object or an array.',
  myNumber: 123456789,
  myBoolean: true,
  jayson: {
    stringify: 'JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string....',
    parse: 'JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string...'
  }
};

var myCopy = null;

Tests:

Lodash cloneDeep
myCopy = _.cloneDeep(MyObject);
Json stringify
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON parse+stringify

Lodash cloneDeep

Json stringify