Run results for: Object literal vs Object.create(null)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.3.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 8 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Object.create(null)	1762.8 Ops/sec
object literal	9783.6 Ops/sec

Tests:

Object.create(null)
const a = []; for (let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { const o = Object.create(null) o.x = 'a string' o.y = 17 o.z = { m: 'an object', n: 97 } a.push( o ) }
object literal
const a = []; for (let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { const o = { x: 'a string' } o.y = 17 o.z = { m: 'an object', n: 97 } a.push( o ) }

Run results for: Object literal vs Object.create(null)

compare performance of object creating non-empty objects using object literal vs Object.create

Object.create(null)

object literal