Run results for: lodash cloneDeep vs. JSON.parse(JSON.stringify()) vs. structuredClone

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 Edg/129.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 129

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

lodash cloneDeep

989K/s

JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())

811K/s

structuredClone

369K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ lodash cloneDeep	989,157 Ops/sec
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())	810,586 Ops/sec
structuredClone	369,259 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.21/lodash.min.js'></script>
<script src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jsondiffpatch@0.4.1/dist/jsondiffpatch.umd.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var MyObject = {
  description: 'Creates a deep copy of source, which should be an object or an array.',
  myNumber: 123456789,
  myBoolean: true,
  jayson: {
    stringify: 'JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string....',
    parse: 'JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string...'
  }
};

var myCopy = null;

Tests:

lodash cloneDeep
myCopy = _.cloneDeep(MyObject);
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify())
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));
structuredClone
myCopy = structuredClone(MyObject);