Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone (Number, Boolean, Object, Array, String, Null)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	386460.7 Ops/sec
Json clone	455773.6 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 = {
  string: 'Creates a deep copy of source, which should be an object or an array.',
  number: 1234567890,
  boolean: true,
  nullable: null,
  json: {
    stringify: 'JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string....',
    parse: 'JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string...'
  },
  array: [
    {
      id: 5,
      blocked: false,
      avatar: null,
      user: {
        firstName: 'Alan',
        lastName: 'Walker'
      },
    },
    {
      id: 5688,
      blocked: false,
      avatar: null,
      user: {
        firstName: 'Anna',
        lastName: 'Wanderwood'
      },
    },
    {
      id: 80043,
      blocked: true,
      avatar: 'image.jpg',
      user: {
        firstName: 'Serj',
        lastName: 'Cooper'
      },
    },
  ]
};

var myCopy = null;

Tests:

Lodash cloneDeep
myCopy = _.cloneDeep(MyObject);
Json clone
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone (Number, Boolean, Object, Array, String, Null)

Lodash cloneDeep

Json clone