Run results for: angular.copy vs JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())

FIguring out the performance differences between using the operations in the name on copying an array of objects considering the fact that other methods of copying (slice, concat, etc.) are shallow copies and end up being by reference instead of by value.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 12

Operating system: iOS 12.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
angular.copy()	302580.6 Ops/sec
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())	202347.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<html>
  <head>
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.4/angular.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

Script Preparation code:

var origArr = [
 {
  name  : "obj1",
  val   : 1,
  color : "blue"
 },
  {
  name  : "obj2",
  val   : 2,
  color : "red"
 },
  {
  name  : "obj3",
  val   : 3,
  color : "green"
 },
  {
  name  : "obj4",
  val   : 4,
  color : "orange"
 }
];

var newArr = [];

Tests:

angular.copy()
newArr = angular.copy(origArr);
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())
newArr = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(origArr));

Run results for: angular.copy vs JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())

FIguring out the performance differences between using the operations in the name on copying an array of objects considering the fact that other methods of copying (slice, concat, etc.) are shallow copies and end up being by reference instead of by value.

angular.copy()

JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())