Run results for: Delete vs set undefined

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 139

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Delete

57.6M/s

Set undefined

52.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Delete	57,646,504 Ops/sec
Set undefined	52,648,820 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var obj = {a:1, b:2, c:3, d:4};

Tests:

Delete
delete obj.a; delete obj.b; delete obj.c; delete obj.d;
Set undefined
obj.a = undefined; obj.b = undefined; obj.c = undefined; obj.d = undefined;