Comparing deep cloning methods (small object): Lodash <> Custom clone func <> JSON.parse <> structuredClone
Missing clone-deep
Date tested:
one year ago
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Test name
Executions per second
Lodash
1285449.0 Ops/sec
Custom function
1590490.0 Ops/sec
JSON.parse
632891.8 Ops/sec
structuredClone
463829.3 Ops/sec
Benchmark definition (click to collapse):
HTML Preparation code:
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>
Script Preparation code:
function recursiveDeepCopy(o) { var newO, i; if (typeof o !== 'object') { return o; } if (!o) { return o; } if ('[object Array]' === Object.prototype.toString.apply(o)) { newO = []; for (i = 0; i < o.length; i += 1) { newO[i] = recursiveDeepCopy(o[i]); } return newO; } newO = {}; for (i in o) { if (o.hasOwnProperty(i)) { newO[i] = recursiveDeepCopy(o[i]); } } return newO; } 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
myCopy = _.cloneDeep(MyObject);
Custom function
myCopy = recursiveDeepCopy(MyObject);
JSON.parse
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));
structuredClone
myCopy = structuredClone(MyObject);
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