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 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 143

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

Read from data property

132.3M/s

Read from accessor method

129.6M/s

Write to mutator method

129.4M/s

Write to data property

124.5M/s

Read from object literal property on prototype

117.5M/s

Write to object literal property on prototype

114.3M/s

Read from object literal property

51.5M/s

Write to object literal property

10.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Read from data property	132,316,656 Ops/sec
Read from accessor method	129,604,000 Ops/sec
Write to mutator method	129,409,640 Ops/sec
Write to data property	124,522,288 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property on prototype	117,481,648 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property on prototype	114,295,216 Ops/sec
Read from object literal property	51,487,680 Ops/sec
Write to object literal property	10,112,071 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;