Run results for: Data Properties vs. Accessor Properties vs. Getter / Setter Methods

The purpose of this benchmark is to determine the performance differences between data properties, accessor properties and getters / setter functions.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Write to data property

19.5M/s

Read from data property

16.2M/s

Read from accessor method

15.2M/s

Read from object literal property on prototype

14.7M/s

Read from object literal property

13.8M/s

Write to mutator method

12.7M/s

Write to object literal property on prototype

12.3M/s

Write to object literal property

8.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Write to data property	19,466,396 Ops/sec
Read from data property	16,240,653 Ops/sec
Read from accessor method	15,225,466 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property on prototype	14,726,452 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property	13,784,863 Ops/sec
Write to mutator method	12,676,065 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property on prototype	12,263,377 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property	8,288,834 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var data = {
  property: property
};

var property = undefined;

var method = {
  getProperty: function() {
    return property;
  },

  setProperty: function(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};

var objectLiteralAccessor = {
  get property() {
    return property;
  },
  set property(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};

function Class() {
}

Class.prototype = {
  get property() {
    return property;
  },
  set property(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};
    
var prototypeAccessor = new Class();

Tests:

Read from data property
var value = data.property;
Write to data property
data.property = true;
Read from accessor method
var value = method.getProperty();
Write to mutator method
method.setProperty(true);
Read from object literal property
var value = objectLiteralAccessor.property;
Write to object literal property
objectLiteralAccessor.property = true;
Read from object literal property on prototype
var value = prototypeAccessor.property;
Write to object literal property on prototype
prototypeAccessor.property = true;