Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs structuredClone vs JSON encoding

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Lodash cloneDeep

827K/s ±0.54%

JSON encoding

540K/s ±2.30%

Native structuredClone

519K/s ±1.40%

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Lodash cloneDeep	827,054 Ops/sec ±0.54%
JSON encoding	540,406 Ops/sec ±2.30%
Native structuredClone	519,386 Ops/sec ±1.40%

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.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);
Native structuredClone
myCopy = structuredClone(MyObject);
JSON encoding
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject))

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs structuredClone vs JSON encoding

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/structuredClone

Lodash cloneDeep

Native structuredClone

JSON encoding