Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone v. 4

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 75

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	272980.1 Ops/sec
Json clone	168559.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.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...',
    selectors: ['.sada', 'asdgqa', '.sada', 'asdgqa', '.sada', 'asdgqa'],
    selectors2: ['.sada', 'asdgqa', '.sada', 'asdgqa', '.sada', 'asdgqa'],
    selectors3: ['.sada', '.sadsafasa', 'asdasdasf', '.sasdasdasada', 'asdasdasdasdasd', '.sasdasdasada', 'asdasdasdasdasd']
  }
};

var myCopy = null;

Tests:

Lodash cloneDeep
myCopy = _.cloneDeep(MyObject);
Json clone
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone v. 4

Lodash cloneDeep

Json clone