Run results for: ES6 property (get/set) & getter/setter function & direct access to object attribute

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

ES6 property (set)

17.3M/s

Directly set

17.3M/s

Setter function

17.2M/s

Getter function

7.5M/s

Directly get

7.5M/s

ES6 property (get)

7.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ ES6 property (set)	17,263,716 Ops/sec
Directly set	17,261,106 Ops/sec
Setter function	17,200,772 Ops/sec
Getter function	7,495,761 Ops/sec
Directly get	7,483,442 Ops/sec
ES6 property (get)	7,481,475 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

class Class {
    constructor () {
        this._val = 1
    }
    get value() { return this._val }
    set value(x) { this._val = x }
    getValue() { return this._val }
    setValue(x) { this.val = x }
}
var cls = new Class()
var wtf

Tests:

ES6 property (get)
wtf = cls.value
Getter function
wtf = cls.getValue()
Directly get
wtf = cls._val
ES6 property (set)
cls.value = 1
Setter function
cls.setValue(1)
Directly set
cls._val = 1