Run results for: Object literal vs Object.create(null)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Object.create(null)

5K/s

object literal

4K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Object.create(null)	4,995 Ops/sec
object literal	4,228 Ops/sec

Tests:

Object.create(null)
const a = []; for (let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { const o = Object.create(null) o.x = 'a string' o.y = 17 o.z = { m: 'an object', n: 97 } a.push( o ) }
object literal
const a = []; for (let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { const o = { x: 'a string' } o.y = 17 o.z = { m: 'an object', n: 97 } a.push( o ) }