Run results for: angular.copy vs JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())

FIguring out the performance differences between using the operations in the name on copying an array of objects considering the fact that other methods of copying (slice, concat, etc.) are shallow copies and end up being by reference instead of by value.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/25.0 Chrome/121.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 121

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

angular.copy()

840K/s

JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())

498K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ angular.copy()	840,012 Ops/sec
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())	497,794 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<html>
  <head>
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.4/angular.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

Script Preparation code:

var origArr = [
 {
  name  : "obj1",
  val   : 1,
  color : "blue"
 },
  {
  name  : "obj2",
  val   : 2,
  color : "red"
 },
  {
  name  : "obj3",
  val   : 3,
  color : "green"
 },
  {
  name  : "obj4",
  val   : 4,
  color : "orange"
 }
];

var newArr = [];

Tests:

angular.copy()
newArr = angular.copy(origArr);
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())
newArr = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(origArr));