Run results for: Data Properties vs. Accessor Properties vs. Getter / Setter Methods 2

The purpose of this benchmark is to determine the performance differences between data properties, accessor properties and getters / setter functions.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 86

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Read from data property	8346999.0 Ops/sec
Write to data property	8945231.0 Ops/sec
Read from accessor method	4455889.5 Ops/sec
Write to mutator method	3267494.5 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property	3645362.8 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property	1926492.1 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property on prototype	4566367.5 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property on prototype	3488152.5 Ops/sec
Read with prototype method	4479296.5 Ops/sec
Write with prototype method	3499108.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<b>Comparing performance of:</b> Read from data property vs Write to data property vs Read from accessor method vs Write to mutator method vs Read from object literal property vs Write to object literal property vs Read from object literal property on prototype vs Write to object literal property on prototype

Script Preparation code:

var data = {
  property: property
};

var property = undefined;

var method = {
  getProperty: function() {
    return property;
  },

  setProperty: function(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};

var objectLiteralAccessor = {
  get property() {
    return property;
  },
  set property(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};

function Class() {
}

Class.prototype = {
  get property() {
    return property;
  },
  set property(value) {
    property = value;
  },
  getProperty() {
    return property;
  },
  setProperty(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};
    
var prototypeAccessor = new Class();

Tests:

Read from data property
var value = data.property;
Write to data property
data.property = true;
Read from accessor method
var value = method.getProperty();
Write to mutator method
method.setProperty(true);
Read from object literal property
var value = objectLiteralAccessor.property;
Write to object literal property
objectLiteralAccessor.property = true;
Read from object literal property on prototype
var value = prototypeAccessor.property;
Write to object literal property on prototype
prototypeAccessor.property = true;
Read with prototype method
var value = prototypeAccessor.getProperty();
Write with prototype method
prototypeAccessor.setProperty(true);

Run results for: Data Properties vs. Accessor Properties vs. Getter / Setter Methods 2

The purpose of this benchmark is to determine the performance differences between data properties, accessor properties and getters / setter functions.

Read from data property

Write to data property

Read from accessor method

Write to mutator method

Read from object literal property

Write to object literal property

Read from object literal property on prototype

Write to object literal property on prototype

Read with prototype method

Write with prototype method