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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 129

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

for in loop

6.2M/s

Object.assign

469K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ for in loop	6,180,200 Ops/sec
Object.assign	469,142 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];