Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs structuredClone vs recursiveDeepCopy vs JSON clone

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0

Browser: Firefox 121

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

recursiveDeepCopy

11.0M/s

Lodash cloneDeep

1.2M/s

Json Clone

668K/s

Native structuredClone

573K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ recursiveDeepCopy	11,016,202 Ops/sec
Lodash cloneDeep	1,191,922 Ops/sec
Json Clone	668,384 Ops/sec
Native structuredClone	573,438 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></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;

function recursiveDeepCopy(o) {
    var newO,
      i;
  
    if (typeof o !== 'object') {
      return o;
    }
    if (!o) {
      return o;
    }
  
    if ('[object Array]' === Object.prototype.toString.apply(o)) {
      newO = [];
      for (i = 0; i < o.length; i += 1) {
        newO[i] = recursiveDeepCopy(o[i]);
      }
      return newO;
    }
  
    newO = {};
    for (i in o) {
      if (o.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
        newO[i] = recursiveDeepCopy(o[i]);
      }
    }
    return newO;
  }

Tests:

Lodash cloneDeep
myCopy = _.cloneDeep(MyObject);
Native structuredClone
myCopy = structuredClone(MyObject);
recursiveDeepCopy
myCopy = recursiveDeepCopy(MyObject);
Json Clone
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs structuredClone vs recursiveDeepCopy vs JSON clone

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/structuredClone

Lodash cloneDeep

Native structuredClone

recursiveDeepCopy

Json Clone