Run results for: Lodash vs structured Clone vs json parse

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Lodash

1.7M/s

JSON Parse

1.4M/s

Structured Clone API

673K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Lodash	1,723,150 Ops/sec
JSON Parse	1,351,391 Ops/sec
Structured Clone API	672,794 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;

Tests:

Lodash
myCopy = _.cloneDeep(MyObject);
Structured Clone API
myCopy = structuredClone(MyObject);
JSON Parse
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));