Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs clone

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36 OPR/44.0.2510.1457

Browser: Opera 44

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	119924.7 Ops/sec
Vanilla clone	76589.4 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);
Vanilla clone
function clone(obj) { const clone = Object.create(Object.getPrototypeOf(obj)); Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj).forEach(key => { Object.defineProperty(clone, key, Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(obj, key)); }); return clone; } myCopy = clone(MyObject);

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs clone

Lodash cloneDeep

Vanilla clone