Run results for: Object.assign vs prototype

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:101.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/101.0

Browser: Firefox 101

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Extend prototype	23289.0 Ops/sec
Object.assign	7891.7 Ops/sec

Tests:

Extend prototype
for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { String.prototype.toBinary = function () { let output = ''; for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) { output += this[i].charCodeAt(0).toString(2) + " "; } return output; } String.prototype.toHex = function () { let output = ''; for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) { output += this[i].charCodeAt(0).toString(8) + " "; } return output; } }
Object.assign
for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { Object.assign(String.prototype, { toBinary() { let output = ''; for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) { output += this[i].charCodeAt(0).toString(2) + " "; } return output; }, toHex() { let output = ''; for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) { output += this[i].charCodeAt(0).toString(8) + " "; } return output; } }); }