Run results for: structuredClone vs alternatives test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/138.0

Browser: Firefox 138

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	386276.4 Ops/sec
Native JSON parse	649671.2 Ops/sec
Recursive deep clone	1672658.0 Ops/sec
structuredClone	461108.2 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 JSON parse
testCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(testArray));
Recursive deep clone
testCopy = deepClone(testArray);
structuredClone
testCopy = structuredClone(testArray);

Run results for: structuredClone vs alternatives test

compare object deep clone methods

Lodash cloneDeep

Native JSON parse

Recursive deep clone

structuredClone