Run results for: Clone Deep vs JSON Parse Test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_1) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 13

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	474638.9 Ops/sec
Json parse clone	309556.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.15/lodash.min.js" integrity="sha256-VeNaFBVDhoX3H+gJ37DpT/nTuZTdjYro9yBruHjVmoQ=" crossorigin="anonymous"></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 parse clone
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));

Run results for: Clone Deep vs JSON Parse Test

Lodash cloneDeep

Json parse clone