Run results for: deep clone - lodash vs ramda vs json

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 68

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
lodash - cloneDeep	377375.6 Ops/sec
json - parse/stringify	104156.2 Ops/sec
ramda - clone	487961.2 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 Preparation code:

var obj = {
  author: 'Jason Carmona',
  fieldNumber: 112050642,
  nestedObject: {
    funFact1: 'You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television',
    funFact2: 'The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green',
  	funFact3: 'There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe',
  	funFact4: 'Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it',
  	funFact5: 'You cannot snore and dream at the same time'
  }
};

var objCopy = null;

Tests:

lodash - cloneDeep
objCopy = _.cloneDeep(obj);
json - parse/stringify
objCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj));
ramda - clone
objCopy = R.clone(obj);

Run results for: deep clone - lodash vs ramda vs json

lodash - cloneDeep

json - parse/stringify

ramda - clone