Run results for: .dot vs ['bracket'] notation

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

bracket / small object

15.1M/s

dot / small object

11.5M/s

dot / big object

9.4M/s

bracket / big object

8.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ bracket / small object	15,145,418 Ops/sec
dot / small object	11,546,068 Ops/sec
dot / big object	9,377,222 Ops/sec
bracket / big object	8,291,090 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

  // setup a tiny object
  var foo = {
   prop25: "value25"
  };
  
  // setup a really big object
  var bigObj = {};
  for (var i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
   bigObj["prop" + i] = "value" + i;
  }

Tests:

dot / small object
var a = foo.prop25;
bracket / small object
var a = foo['prop25'];
dot / big object
var a = bigObj.prop25;
bracket / big object
var a = bigObj['prop25'];

Run results for: .dot vs ['bracket'] notation

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dot / small object

bracket / small object

dot / big object

bracket / big object