Run results for: Delete vs set undefined

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.3.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Delete

8.9M/s

Set undefined

3.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Delete	8,925,840 Ops/sec
Set undefined	2,966,247 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;