Run results for: Data Properties vs. Accessor Properties vs. Getter / Setter Methods

The purpose of this benchmark is to determine the performance differences between data properties, accessor properties and getters / setter functions.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 15

Operating system: iOS 15.6

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Read from object literal property

203.5M/s

Write to mutator method

200.5M/s

Read from accessor method

199.5M/s

Read from object literal property on prototype

198.5M/s

Read from data property

196.2M/s

Write to object literal property

195.3M/s

Write to object literal property on prototype

190.1M/s

Write to data property

188.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Read from object literal property	203,491,696 Ops/sec
Write to mutator method	200,495,424 Ops/sec
Read from accessor method	199,501,600 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property on prototype	198,536,752 Ops/sec
Read from data property	196,208,432 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property	195,338,048 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property on prototype	190,104,640 Ops/sec
Write to data property	188,676,528 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var data = {
  property: property
};

var property = undefined;

var method = {
  getProperty: function() {
    return property;
  },

  setProperty: function(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};

var objectLiteralAccessor = {
  get property() {
    return property;
  },
  set property(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};

function Class() {
}

Class.prototype = {
  get property() {
    return property;
  },
  set property(value) {
    property = value;
  }
};
    
var prototypeAccessor = new Class();

Tests:

Read from data property
var value = data.property;
Write to data property
data.property = true;
Read from accessor method
var value = method.getProperty();
Write to mutator method
method.setProperty(true);
Read from object literal property
var value = objectLiteralAccessor.property;
Write to object literal property
objectLiteralAccessor.property = true;
Read from object literal property on prototype
var value = prototypeAccessor.property;
Write to object literal property on prototype
prototypeAccessor.property = true;