Run results for: Lodash clone vs JSON parse stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.64 Safari/537.36 Edg/101.0.1210.47

Browser: Chrome 101

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
lodash clone	724168.8 Ops/sec
JSON PARSE	191854.9 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...'
  }
};

Tests:

lodash clone
const clone = _.clone(MyObject)
JSON PARSE
const clone = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject))

Run results for: Lodash clone vs JSON parse stringify

lodash clone

JSON PARSE