Run results for: Spread vs Object.assign

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Spread two objects

74K/s

Spread three objects

48K/s

Object.assign two objects

46K/s

Spread four objects

36K/s

Spread five objects

28K/s

Object.assign three objects

25K/s

Spread six objects

23K/s

Object.assign four objects

17K/s

Object.assign five objects

16K/s

Object.assign six objects

11K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Spread two objects	74,046 Ops/sec
Spread three objects	48,294 Ops/sec
Object.assign two objects	46,403 Ops/sec
Spread four objects	35,528 Ops/sec
Spread five objects	28,045 Ops/sec
Object.assign three objects	24,901 Ops/sec
Spread six objects	22,851 Ops/sec
Object.assign four objects	16,714 Ops/sec
Object.assign five objects	15,665 Ops/sec
Object.assign six objects	10,536 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.object1 = {};
window.object2 = {};
window.object3 = {};
window.object4 = {};
window.object5 = {};
window.object6 = {};

function makeid() {
  var text = "";
  var possible = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";

  for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++)
    text += possible.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * possible.length));

  return text;
};

function populate(object) {
  for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
    object[makeid()] = makeid();
  }
};

populate(object1);
populate(object2);
populate(object3);
populate(object4);
populate(object5);
populate(object6);

Tests:

Object.assign two objects
const object7 = Object.assign({}, object1, object2);
Spread two objects
const object7 = {...object1, ...object2};
Object.assign three objects
const object7 = Object.assign({}, object1, object2, object3);
Spread three objects
const object7 = {...object1, ...object2, ...object3};
Object.assign four objects
const object7 = Object.assign({}, object1, object2, object3, object4);
Spread four objects
const object7 = {...object1, ...object2, ...object3, ...object4};
Object.assign five objects
const object7 = Object.assign({}, object1, object2, object3, object4, object5);
Spread five objects
const object7 = {...object1, ...object2, ...object3, ...object4, ...object5};
Object.assign six objects
const object7 = Object.assign({}, object1, object2, object3, object4, object5, object6);
Spread six objects
const object7 = {...object1, ...object2, ...object3, ...object4, ...object5, ...object6};