Run results for: Deep copy comparison

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
spread ...	25791594.0 Ops/sec
slice()	21696644.0 Ops/sec
splice(0)	14547287.0 Ops/sec
concat()	9881104.0 Ops/sec
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())	1707639.8 Ops/sec
Custom function	1391286.0 Ops/sec
Lodash.cloneDeep()	1444146.5 Ops/sec
jQuery.extend(true)	898274.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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Tests:

spread ...
const arr1 = [ true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} ]; // Deep copies: true, 1, "true" // Shallow copies: [], {}, function () {} const arr2 = [ ...arr1 ];
slice()
const arr1 = [ true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} ]; // Deep copies: true, 1, "true" // Shallow copies: [], {}, function () {} const arr2 = arr1.slice();
splice(0)
const arr1 = [ true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} ]; // Deep copies: true, 1, "true" // Shallow copies: [], {}, function () {} const arr2 = arr1.splice(0);
concat()
const arr1 = [ true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} ]; // Deep copies: true, 1, "true" // Shallow copies: [], {}, function () {} const arr2 = arr1.concat();
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())
const arr1 = [ true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} ]; // Deep copies: true, 1, "true", [], {} // Shallow copies: function () {} const arr2 = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(arr1));
Custom function
function copy(aObject) { // Prevent undefined objects // if (!aObject) return aObject; let bObject = Array.isArray(aObject) ? [] : {}; let value; for (const key in aObject) { // Prevent self-references to parent object // if (Object.is(aObject[key], aObject)) continue; value = aObject[key]; bObject[key] = (typeof value === "object") ? copy(value) : value; } return bObject; } const arr1 = [ true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} ]; // Deep copies: true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} const arr2 = copy(arr1);
Lodash.cloneDeep()
const arr1 = [ true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} ]; // Deep copies: true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} const arr2 = _.cloneDeep(arr1);
jQuery.extend(true)
const arr1 = [ true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} ]; // Deep copies: true, 1, "true", [], {}, function () {} const arr2 = jQuery.extend(true, [], arr1);

Run results for: Deep copy comparison

Benchmarks for StackOverflow question on deep copy techniques https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7486085/copy-array-by-value/23536726#23536726

spread ...

slice()

splice(0)

concat()

JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())

Custom function

Lodash.cloneDeep()

jQuery.extend(true)