Run results for: inheritance new vs Object.create

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 11

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
new operator	103497.5 Ops/sec
Object.create method	69479.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

new operator
function foo(){} foo.prototype = { foo_prop: "foo val" }; function bar(){} var proto = new foo; proto.bar_prop = "bar val"; bar.prototype = proto; var inst = new bar; console.log(inst.foo_prop); console.log(inst.bar_prop);
Object.create method
function foo(){} foo.prototype = { foo_prop: "foo val" }; function bar(){} var proto = Object.create( foo.prototype ); proto.bar_prop = "bar val"; bar.prototype = proto; var inst = new bar; console.log(inst.foo_prop); console.log(inst.bar_prop);