Run results for: Lodash vs JSON vs Ramda vs old school

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:73.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0

Browser: Firefox 73

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	8848.8 Ops/sec
Json clone	13766.9 Ops/sec
Ramda clone	5985.5 Ops/sec
hand rolled	8872.7 Ops/sec
loop not map (still recursive)	148816.0 Ops/sec
original gangster	216973.5 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 MyObject = [
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    "isActive": false,
    "balance": "$1,389.79",
    "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32",
    "age": 26,
    "eyeColor": "green",
    "name": "Josie Head",
    "gender": "female",
    "company": "FITCORE",
    "email": "josiehead@fitcore.com",
    "phone": "+1 (960) 535-2795",
    "address": "846 Regent Place, Twilight, Missouri, 5131",
    "about": "Duis adipisicing commodo reprehenderit veniam cillum nostrud sit sunt est. Tempor laborum pariatur irure nulla ex reprehenderit. Voluptate anim eu et nostrud ipsum mollit aute qui ea ullamco. Nulla minim sint voluptate exercitation nostrud mollit eu mollit. Ea duis dolor quis enim consectetur. Veniam cillum exercitation incididunt reprehenderit.\r\n",
    "registered": "2019-01-06T08:54:40 +05:00",
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      "minim",
      "irure",
      "dolor",
      "commodo",
      "magna",
      "excepteur",
      "magna"
    ],
    "friends": [
      {
        "id": 0,
        "name": "Odom Grant"
      },
      {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Hester Caldwell"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Clements Bullock"
      }
    ],
    "greeting": "Hello, Josie Head! You have 3 unread messages.",
    "favoriteFruit": "apple"
  },
  {
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    "index": 1,
    "guid": "4786ea00-8742-439f-8e2a-004a2bae8a84",
    "isActive": true,
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    "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32",
    "age": 26,
    "eyeColor": "blue",
    "name": "Julie Kemp",
    "gender": "female",
    "company": "FUELWORKS",
    "email": "juliekemp@fuelworks.com",
    "phone": "+1 (886) 498-3935",
    "address": "152 Middleton Street, Celeryville, Ohio, 9868",
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      "minim",
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      "ea"
    ],
    "friends": [
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        "name": "Barr Scott"
      },
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        "id": 1,
        "name": "Atkinson Avery"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Teri Rivera"
      }
    ],
    "greeting": "Hello, Julie Kemp! You have 6 unread messages.",
    "favoriteFruit": "apple"
  },
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    "_id": "5e1e19a343953743072e48c9",
    "index": 2,
    "guid": "f0b3b8a2-6383-4cfa-a95e-439d3e360592",
    "isActive": true,
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    "eyeColor": "green",
    "name": "Herman Griffith",
    "gender": "male",
    "company": "OPTICOM",
    "email": "hermangriffith@opticom.com",
    "phone": "+1 (922) 507-3579",
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    "registered": "2018-06-12T09:35:46 +04:00",
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      "aute",
      "pariatur",
      "deserunt",
      "et",
      "cillum",
      "id",
      "excepteur"
    ],
    "friends": [
      {
        "id": 0,
        "name": "Mack David"
      },
      {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Joanne Bryan"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Carroll Allen"
      }
    ],
    "greeting": "Hello, Herman Griffith! You have 6 unread messages.",
    "favoriteFruit": "apple"
  },
  {
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    "index": 3,
    "guid": "8d123a89-ac66-40ee-9d1d-3e34d12a66c5",
    "isActive": true,
    "balance": "$1,877.60",
    "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32",
    "age": 22,
    "eyeColor": "blue",
    "name": "Best Bruce",
    "gender": "male",
    "company": "MAINELAND",
    "email": "bestbruce@maineland.com",
    "phone": "+1 (835) 553-3427",
    "address": "247 Cumberland Street, Volta, Rhode Island, 6571",
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    "registered": "2016-09-03T02:40:47 +04:00",
    "latitude": -86.651356,
    "longitude": -72.364284,
    "tags": [
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      "dolor",
      "duis",
      "tempor",
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      "ut",
      "enim"
    ],
    "friends": [
      {
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        "name": "Bolton Peters"
      },
      {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Lucinda Franklin"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Humphrey Gentry"
      }
    ],
    "greeting": "Hello, Best Bruce! You have 4 unread messages.",
    "favoriteFruit": "strawberry"
  },
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    "index": 4,
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    "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32",
    "age": 21,
    "eyeColor": "green",
    "name": "Young Frederick",
    "gender": "female",
    "company": "MATRIXITY",
    "email": "youngfrederick@matrixity.com",
    "phone": "+1 (899) 577-2643",
    "address": "405 Bay Street, Harold, New York, 2507",
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    "registered": "2017-04-26T12:04:12 +04:00",
    "latitude": -6.274446,
    "longitude": -177.658413,
    "tags": [
      "sit",
      "sunt",
      "pariatur",
      "commodo",
      "adipisicing",
      "non",
      "enim"
    ],
    "friends": [
      {
        "id": 0,
        "name": "Latasha Mclean"
      },
      {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Dillard Barrera"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Roth Acevedo"
      }
    ],
    "greeting": "Hello, Young Frederick! You have 5 unread messages.",
    "favoriteFruit": "strawberry"
  },
  {
    "_id": "5e1e19a3f36e5a3ff58c3f1e",
    "index": 5,
    "guid": "2c41264a-f19e-4fa5-91d7-ca8cf5314b0a",
    "isActive": true,
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    "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32",
    "age": 22,
    "eyeColor": "blue",
    "name": "Cotton Warner",
    "gender": "male",
    "company": "EQUITAX",
    "email": "cottonwarner@equitax.com",
    "phone": "+1 (871) 439-2340",
    "address": "517 Madoc Avenue, Chloride, Utah, 9942",
    "about": "Aute esse adipisicing fugiat sunt. Ullamco est officia ex quis fugiat nostrud Lorem consectetur minim aliqua incididunt tempor dolore. Anim duis consectetur commodo Lorem proident id elit reprehenderit velit mollit aute non elit est. Tempor do occaecat officia est fugiat qui laborum ad do magna.\r\n",
    "registered": "2018-10-20T10:42:15 +04:00",
    "latitude": 47.224342,
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      "fugiat",
      "sint",
      "nisi",
      "sit",
      "aliquip",
      "deserunt"
    ],
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      {
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        "name": "Jodi Long"
      },
      {
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        "name": "Jenifer Willis"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Kirsten Roberts"
      }
    ],
    "greeting": "Hello, Cotton Warner! You have 6 unread messages.",
    "favoriteFruit": "banana"
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    "isActive": false,
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    "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32",
    "age": 33,
    "eyeColor": "green",
    "name": "Margo Nash",
    "gender": "female",
    "company": "FROLIX",
    "email": "margonash@frolix.com",
    "phone": "+1 (889) 407-3670",
    "address": "916 Colonial Road, Belfair, Connecticut, 1956",
    "about": "Amet ullamco aliqua occaecat nulla laborum incididunt minim nostrud sint. Eiusmod ut labore adipisicing commodo consectetur. Id cupidatat proident officia do. Aute nostrud sit pariatur irure consequat esse enim magna nisi. Magna ad cupidatat cupidatat amet nisi incididunt quis enim in aliquip ut velit sint aliquip.\r\n",
    "registered": "2015-06-08T03:26:01 +04:00",
    "latitude": -69.241111,
    "longitude": -40.43834,
    "tags": [
      "ullamco",
      "commodo",
      "deserunt",
      "sint",
      "consectetur",
      "pariatur",
      "ullamco"
    ],
    "friends": [
      {
        "id": 0,
        "name": "Malinda Lang"
      },
      {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Jeanie Rivers"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Greene Wilkerson"
      }
    ],
    "greeting": "Hello, Margo Nash! You have 6 unread messages.",
    "favoriteFruit": "banana"
  }
];

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)
loop not map (still recursive)
const cp_old=(obj)=>{ if ("object" !== typeof obj) { return obj } else { const entries = Object.entries(obj) for(let i = 0; i < entries.length; i++) { entries[i][2] = cp_old(entries[i][2]) } return Object.fromEntries(entries) } } myCopy = cp_old(MyObject)
original gangster
const cp_stack=(obj)=>{ if ("object" !== typeof obj) { return obj } else { const stack = [] let entries = Object.entries(obj) let i=0 stackloop: while(true) { for(; i < entries.length; i++) { if ("object" !== typeof entries[i][2]) continue stack.push([i,entries]) entries = Object.entries(entries[i][2]) i = 0 continue stackloop } if (stack.length === 0) break const copy = Object.fromEntries(entries) [i, entries] = stack.pop() entries[i][2] = copy } return Object.fromEntries(entries) } } myCopy = cp_stack(MyObject)

Run results for: Lodash vs JSON vs Ramda vs old school

just benchmarking things

Lodash cloneDeep

Json clone

Ramda clone

hand rolled

loop not map (still recursive)

original gangster