Benchmark: Object.defineProperties with getOwnPropertyDescriptors vs Object.assign vs Object spread

Script Preparation code:

var input = new Array(100).fill().map((v, i) => i)

Tests:

Object.defineProperties
const output = input.reduce((acc, value) => Object.defineProperties(acc, Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors({[`key${value}`]: value})), {});
Object spread
const output = input.reduce((acc, value) => ({ ...acc, [`key${value}`]: value }));
Object.assign (mutable)
const output = input.reduce((acc, value) => Object.assign(acc, { [`key${value}`]: value }), {});

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Object.defineProperties
Object spread
Object.assign (mutable)

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 127 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
Object.defineProperties	14362.9 Ops/sec
Object spread	7997.1 Ops/sec
Object.assign (mutable)	40612.2 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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Let's dive into the provided benchmark and explain what's being tested.

**Benchmark Description**

The benchmark is designed to compare three approaches for creating objects with dynamic properties:

1. `Object.defineProperties` (with `getOwnPropertyDescriptors`)
2. `Object.assign`
3. `Object spread`

These approaches are used to create an object with 100 properties, where each property's key is a unique integer value.

**Options Compared**

Here's a brief overview of the three options being compared:

1. **`Object.defineProperties` (with `getOwnPropertyDescriptors`)**
	* Pros:
		+ Allows for more fine-grained control over property creation and access.
		+ Can be used to create objects with complex property hierarchies.
	* Cons:
		+ Can lead to slower performance due to the overhead of accessing property descriptors.
2. **`Object.assign`**
	* Pros:
		+ Fast and efficient, as it uses a simple array concatenation approach.
	* Cons:
		+ Less flexible than `Object.defineProperties`, as it only allows for addition of new properties.
3. **`Object spread`** (using the spread operator (`{ ... }`))
	* Pros:
		+ Fast and efficient, similar to `Object.assign`.
		+ Allows for more concise code than traditional object creation methods.

**Library Used**

None of the options rely on external libraries.

**Special JS Feature/Syntax**

The benchmark uses the spread operator (`{ ... }`) in one of the test cases. This is a modern JavaScript feature introduced in ECMAScript 2018 (ES8). The spread operator allows for creating new objects by copying properties from an existing object, while also allowing for adding new properties.

**Benchmark Preparation Code**

The preparation code creates an array of 100 integers using `Array(100).fill().map((v, i) => i)`. This code is used to generate the dynamic property keys and values.

**Latest Benchmark Result**

The benchmark results show that:

* `Object.assign (mutable)` has the fastest execution time (40612.24609375 executions per second).
* `Object.defineProperties` comes in second (14362.876953125 executions per second).
* `Object spread` is slower than both of these options (7997.0869140625 executions per second).

**Other Alternatives**

If you're interested in exploring other approaches, here are a few alternatives:

1. Using `Object.create()` with custom property descriptors.
2. Utilizing a library like Lodash's `assignIn` function to create objects with dynamic properties.
3. Implementing a custom object creation function using bitwise operators or recursion.

Keep in mind that these alternatives may introduce additional complexity or performance overhead, depending on your specific use case.

Related benchmarks:

Object.defineProperties with getOwnPropertyDescriptors vs Object.assign vs Object spread (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Object.defineProperties vs Object spread vs Object.assign (mutable)

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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Object.defineProperties

Object spread

Object.assign (mutable)

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):