Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs Json clone (deeply nested)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.135 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 84

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	168502.5 Ops/sec
Json clone	169435.9 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...',
  },
  deeplyNested: {
    a: { b: { c: { d: { e: { f: { g: { h: { i: '10 levels deep' } } } } } } } }
  },
};

var myCopy = null;

Tests:

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