Run results for: Private vs public class field access

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Private field access

518.3M/s

Public field access

499.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Private field access	518,310,688 Ops/sec
Public field access	498,991,296 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

class ClassWithPublicFields {
  a;
  b;
  constructor() {
    this.a = 4;
    this.b = this.a + 3;
  }
}
window.ClassWithPublicFields = ClassWithPublicFields;

class ClassWithPrivateFields {
  #a;
  #b;
  constructor() {
    this.#a = 4;
    this.#b = this.#a + 3;
  }
}
window.ClassWithPrivateFields = ClassWithPrivateFields;

Tests:

Public field access
new ClassWithPublicFields();
Private field access
new ClassWithPrivateFields();

Run results for: Private vs public class field access

This benchmark works in latest Chrome. It will not run in Firefox, until Firefox version 90, which should come out soon.

Public field access

Private field access