Run results for: lodash merge vs recursive indexed setter merge function

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

lodash merge

1.2M/s

recursive indexed setter merge function

750K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ lodash merge	1,246,158 Ops/sec
recursive indexed setter merge function	750,283 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.21/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

function jsMerge(target, ...sources) {
    if (!sources.length) {
        return target;
    }

    sources.forEach((src) => {
        Object.keys(src).forEach((key) => {
          	const value = src[key];
            if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(target, key)) {
                // target already has key. Merge if required.
                if (typeof target[key] === 'object' && typeof value === 'object') {
                    // Try to merge objects or arrays
                  	if (Array.isArray(value)) {
                      	if (Array.isArray(target[key]) && target[key].length > value.length) {
	                      	// Both arrays and old array is longer. Merge
    	                  	target[key] = Array.prototype.concat(value, Array.prototype.slice.call(target[key], value.length));
	                    } else {
                          	// Either not both arrays or old array is same length/shorter. Overwrite.
							target[key] = value;
                        }
                    } else {
                        // Both non-array objects. Recursively merge
                        target[key] = jsMerge(target[key], value);
                    }
                } else {
                    // At least one side is not object/array. Overwrite.
                    target[key] = value;
                }
            } else {
                // Key does not exist on object. Assign.
                target[key] = value;
            }
        });
    });

    return target;
}

Tests:

recursive indexed setter merge function
var a1 = { a: 'oh', b: 'my', c: 'goodness', d: { a: 'nested', b: 'object', c: [ 'arrayA', 'arrayB', 'arrayC' ], e: 'a.d.e' } }; var b1 = { c: 'GOODNESS', d: { b: 'object!', c: [ 'array1', 'array2' ], d: 'b.d.d' } }; jsMerge(a1, b1);
lodash merge
var a2 = { a: 'oh', b: 'my', c: 'goodness', d: { a: 'nested', b: 'object', c: [ 'arrayA', 'arrayB', 'arrayC' ], e: 'a.d.e' } }; var b2 = { c: 'GOODNESS', d: { b: 'object!', c: [ 'array1', 'array2' ], d: 'b.d.d' } }; _.merge(a2, b2);