Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs native cloneDeep

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; SM-S916B Build/UP1A.231005.007;) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/134.0.6998.39 Mobile Safari/537.36 Zalo android/25022796 ZaloTheme/light ZaloLanguage/vi

Browser: Chrome Mobile 134

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one month ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	341407.6 Ops/sec
Native map deep slice(turns objects into arrays)	6514733.5 Ops/sec
Native JSON parse	530741.9 Ops/sec
Native map deep slice at 0(turns objects into arrays)	6497688.0 Ops/sec
Native map(shallow clone)	7725711.0 Ops/sec
Recursive deep clone	1692702.6 Ops/sec
Map deep clone	1811177.0 Ops/sec
Object.assign shallow clone	3765644.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var testArray = [{
  description: 'Random description.',
  testNumber: 123456789,
  testBoolean: true,
  testObject: {
    testString: 'test string',
    testNumber: 12345
  },
  testArray: [{
    myName: 'test name',
    myNumber: 123245
  }]
},{
  description: 'Random description.',
  testNumber: 123456789,
  testBoolean: true,
  testObject: {
    testString: 'test string',
    testNumber: 12345
  },
  testArray: [{
    myName: 'test name',
    myNumber: 123245
  }]
}];

var testCopy = null;

var deepClone = function(obj) {
   var out;
    if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
        out = [];
        for (var index = 0; index < obj.length; ++index) {
            let subArray = obj[index];
            out.push((subArray === null) ? subArray : (subArray instanceof Date) ? new Date(subArray.valueOf()) : (typeof subArray === 'object') ? deepClone(subArray) : subArray);
        }
    } else {
        out = {};
        for (var key in obj) {
            var subObject = obj[key];
            out[key] = subObject === null ? subObject : subObject instanceof Date ? new Date(subObject.valueOf()) : (typeof subObject === 'object') ? deepClone(subObject) : subObject;
            
           
        }
    }
    return out;
};

Tests:

Lodash cloneDeep
testCopy = _.cloneDeep(testArray);
Native map deep slice(turns objects into arrays)
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => testArray.slice());
Native JSON parse
testCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(testArray));
Native map deep slice at 0(turns objects into arrays)
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => testArray.slice(0));
Native map(shallow clone)
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => arr);
Recursive deep clone
testCopy = deepClone(testArray);
Map deep clone
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => deepClone(arr));
Object.assign shallow clone
testCopy = Object.assign([...testArray]);

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs native cloneDeep

compare array copy/clone methods

Lodash cloneDeep

Native map deep slice(turns objects into arrays)

Native JSON parse

Native map deep slice at 0(turns objects into arrays)

Native map(shallow clone)

Recursive deep clone

Map deep clone

Object.assign shallow clone