Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs structuredClone vs JSON.stringify/parse

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.7 Mobile/22H20 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.7

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Lodash cloneDeep

3.3M/s

JSON.stringify / parse

2.6M/s

Native structuredClone

884K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Lodash cloneDeep	3,293,641 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify / parse	2,552,279 Ops/sec
Native structuredClone	884,424 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 MyObject = {
  description: 'Creates a deep copy of source, which should be an object or an array.',
  myNumber: 123456789,
  myBoolean: true,
  jayson: {
    stringify: 'JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string....',
    parse: 'JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string...'
  }
};

var myCopy = null;

Tests:

Lodash cloneDeep
myCopy = _.cloneDeep(MyObject);
Native structuredClone
myCopy = structuredClone(MyObject);
JSON.stringify / parse
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs structuredClone vs JSON.stringify/parse

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/structuredClone

Lodash cloneDeep

Native structuredClone

JSON.stringify / parse