Run results for: JavaScript Object.assign vs for in loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

for in loop

22.1M/s

Object.assign

7.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ for in loop	22,076,550 Ops/sec
Object.assign	7,407,554 Ops/sec

Tests:

Object.assign
const a = { x: 'xxx', y: 1, z: null } const b = { z: 1, u: 'uuu', v: null } Object.assign(a, b);
for in loop
const a = { x: 'xxx', y: 1, z: null } const b = { z: 1, u: 'uuu', v: null } for (let prop in b) a[prop] = b[prop];