Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON parse+stringify vs native deepClone with large objects

Run details:

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Browser: Firefox 99

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
lodash	17428.7 Ops/sec
Native JSON parse	19267.6 Ops/sec
Native deepClone	72046.7 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:

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function deepClone(obj) {
  return Object.keys(obj).reduce(
    (acc, key) => {
      acc[key] = getValue(obj[key]);
      return acc;
    },
    { ...obj }
  );
}

function getValue(value) {
  if (Array.isArray(value)) {
    return value.map(getValue);
  }

  if (value && typeof value === "object") {
    return deepClone(value);
  }

  return value;
}

var testCopy = null;

Tests:

lodash
testCopy = _.cloneDeep(testObject);
Native JSON parse
testCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(testObject));
Native deepClone
testCopy = deepClone(testObject);

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON parse+stringify vs native deepClone with large objects

lodash

Native JSON parse

Native deepClone