Benchmark: get field from object v2

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var skillConfiguration = {
	marketplace: true
};

Tests:

native
_.get(skillConfiguration, "marketplace")
lodash
skillConfiguration.marketplace

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
native
lodash

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 126 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
native	1827274.4 Ops/sec
lodash	5868370.5 Ops/sec

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

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Let's dive into the world of JavaScript microbenchmarks!

**What is tested?**

The provided JSON represents a benchmark test case for measuring the performance difference between two approaches: using a native property (i.e., accessing the "marketplace" property directly on the `skillConfiguration` object) and using the `_get` function from the Lodash library to access a nested property.

**Options compared**

Two options are being compared:

1. **Native**: Using the native property syntax to access the "marketplace" value.
2. **Lodash**: Using the `_get` function from Lodash to access the "marketplace" value.

**Pros and Cons of each approach:**

* **Native**:
	+ Pros:
		- Typically faster since it avoids function call overhead.
		- Often preferred by developers for its conciseness and readability.
	+ Cons:
		- May not work as expected if the property is not directly accessible or if the object structure changes.
* **Lodash**:
	+ Pros:
		- More flexible and forgiving when dealing with nested properties or objects with varying structures.
		- Can be used to access properties in a more predictable way, reducing potential errors.
	+ Cons:
		- May be slower due to the function call overhead.
		- Requires including an additional library.

**Library: Lodash**

Lodash is a popular JavaScript utility library that provides a wide range of functions for tasks such as string manipulation, array operations, and object access. In this case, `_get` is used to safely access nested properties in objects.

**Special JS feature/syntax**

There are no special JavaScript features or syntaxes being tested in this benchmark. The focus is on comparing the performance of two simple access patterns: native property syntax versus Lodash's `_get` function.

**Other alternatives**

If you wanted to compare other approaches, you could consider testing:

* Using a different library (e.g., jQuery, Underscore.js) for object access.
* Implementing your own custom accessor functions or decorators.
* Comparing performance with and without caching or memoization techniques.

However, these alternatives might introduce additional complexity and may not be as straightforward to compare against the native and Lodash approaches.

Related benchmarks:

get field from object v2 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: native vs lodash

Created: one year ago by: Registered User

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native

lodash

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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