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

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

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Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0

Browser: Firefox 86

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Read from data property	686991488.0 Ops/sec
Write to data property	523231200.0 Ops/sec
Read from accessor method	626472896.0 Ops/sec
Write to mutator method	481054080.0 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property	624092672.0 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property	473199744.0 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property on prototype	582725120.0 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property on prototype	419449568.0 Ops/sec

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;
  }
};
    
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;

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

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