Run results for: Angular clone vs Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/199.0.427504638 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 15

Operating system: iOS 15.3

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	1432002.4 Ops/sec
Json clone	748686.9 Ops/sec
Angular copy	1221777.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.0/angular.min.js"></script>
<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...'
  }
};

var myCopy = null;

Tests:

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

Run results for: Angular clone vs Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone

Lodash cloneDeep

Json clone

Angular copy