Run results for: structuredClone test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 112

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	193805.2 Ops/sec
Native map deep slice(turns objects into arrays)	2275417.0 Ops/sec
Native JSON parse	160367.6 Ops/sec
Native map deep slice at 0(turns objects into arrays)	2302223.8 Ops/sec
Native map(shallow clone)	4255092.5 Ops/sec
Recursive deep clone	138323.4 Ops/sec
Map deep clone	148821.6 Ops/sec
Object.assign shallow clone	2396302.5 Ops/sec
structuredClone	98718.0 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 testArray = [{
  description: 'Random description.',
  testNumber: 123456789,
  testBoolean: true,
  testObject: {
    testString: 'test string',
    testNumber: 12345
  },
  testArray: [{
    myName: 'test name',
    myNumber: 123245
  }]
},{
  description: 'Random description.',
  testNumber: 123456789,
  testBoolean: true,
  testObject: {
    testString: 'test string',
    testNumber: 12345
  },
  testArray: [{
    myName: 'test name',
    myNumber: 123245
  }]
}];

var testCopy = null;

var deepClone = function(obj) {
   var out;
    if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
        out = [];
        for (var index = 0; index < obj.length; ++index) {
            let subArray = obj[index];
            out.push((subArray === null) ? subArray : (subArray instanceof Date) ? new Date(subArray.valueOf()) : (typeof subArray === 'object') ? deepClone(subArray) : subArray);
        }
    } else {
        out = {};
        for (var key in obj) {
            var subObject = obj[key];
            out[key] = subObject === null ? subObject : subObject instanceof Date ? new Date(subObject.valueOf()) : (typeof subObject === 'object') ? deepClone(subObject) : subObject;
            
           
        }
    }
    return out;
};

Tests:

Lodash cloneDeep
testCopy = _.cloneDeep(testArray);
Native map deep slice(turns objects into arrays)
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => testArray.slice());
Native JSON parse
testCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(testArray));
Native map deep slice at 0(turns objects into arrays)
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => testArray.slice(0));
Native map(shallow clone)
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => arr);
Recursive deep clone
testCopy = deepClone(testArray);
Map deep clone
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => deepClone(arr));
Object.assign shallow clone
testCopy = Object.assign([...testArray]);
structuredClone
testCopy = structuredClone(testArray);

Run results for: structuredClone test

compare array copy/clone methods sdfewfe

Lodash cloneDeep

Native map deep slice(turns objects into arrays)

Native JSON parse

Native map deep slice at 0(turns objects into arrays)

Native map(shallow clone)

Recursive deep clone

Map deep clone

Object.assign shallow clone

structuredClone