Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone vs Ramda Clone vs hand rolled vs spread vs obj.assign vs structuredClone

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	871915.7 Ops/sec
Json clone	656257.0 Ops/sec
Ramda clone	1365004.6 Ops/sec
hand rolled	796986.0 Ops/sec
spread	8569201.0 Ops/sec
obj.assign	3965943.8 Ops/sec
structuredClone	339913.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ramda/0.25.0/ramda.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/clone/2.1.2/clone.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);
Json clone
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));
Ramda clone
myCopy = R.clone(MyObject);
hand rolled
const cp=(obj)=>"object" === typeof obj ? Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(obj).map(([k,v])=>[k,cp(v)])) : obj myCopy = cp(MyObject)
spread
myCopy = {...MyObject}
obj.assign
myCopy = Object.assign({}, MyObject)
structuredClone
myCopy = structuredClone(MyObject);

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone vs Ramda Clone vs hand rolled vs spread vs obj.assign vs structuredClone

just benchmarking things

Lodash cloneDeep

Json clone

Ramda clone

hand rolled

spread

obj.assign

structuredClone