Run results for: JSON.stringify vs structuredClone (with deeply nested objects)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.66 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 103

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
JSON.stringify	104495.6 Ops/sec
structuredClone	55417.2 Ops/sec

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...'
  },
  deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {deep: {}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
};

var myCopy = null;

Tests:

JSON.stringify
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));
structuredClone
myCopy = structuredClone(MyObject);