Run results for: Data Properties vs. Accessor Properties vs. Getter / Setter Methods

The purpose of this benchmark is to determine the performance differences between data properties, accessor properties and getters / setter functions.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Read from data property

27.1M/s

Write to data property

25.9M/s

Read from object literal property

15.5M/s

Read from object literal property on prototype

15.3M/s

Read from accessor method

14.1M/s

Write to mutator method

12.8M/s

Write to object literal property

12.6M/s

Write to object literal property on prototype

10.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Read from data property	27,065,912 Ops/sec
Write to data property	25,906,164 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property	15,469,110 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property on prototype	15,264,617 Ops/sec
Read from accessor method	14,113,992 Ops/sec
Write to mutator method	12,846,267 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property	12,614,299 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property on prototype	10,724,423 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var data = {
  property: property
};

var property = undefined;

var method = {
  getProperty: function() {
    return property;
  },

  setProperty: function(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};

var objectLiteralAccessor = {
  get property() {
    return property;
  },
  set property(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};

function Class() {
}

Class.prototype = {
  get property() {
    return property;
  },
  set property(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};
    
var prototypeAccessor = new Class();

Tests:

Read from data property
var value = data.property;
Write to data property
data.property = true;
Read from accessor method
var value = method.getProperty();
Write to mutator method
method.setProperty(true);
Read from object literal property
var value = objectLiteralAccessor.property;
Write to object literal property
objectLiteralAccessor.property = true;
Read from object literal property on prototype
var value = prototypeAccessor.property;
Write to object literal property on prototype
prototypeAccessor.property = true;