Run results for: Delete vs set undefined

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Delete

6.5M/s

Set undefined

2.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Delete	6,488,398 Ops/sec
Set undefined	2,739,492 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var obj = {a:1, b:2, c:3, d:4};

Tests:

Delete
delete obj.a; delete obj.b; delete obj.c; delete obj.d;
Set undefined
obj.a = undefined; obj.b = undefined; obj.c = undefined; obj.d = undefined;