Run results for: JSON.stringify + JSON.parse vs structuredClone

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_6_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.6.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 6 months ago

JSON.stringify + JSON.parse

2.3M/s

structuredClone

815K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.stringify + JSON.parse	2,289,486 Ops/sec
structuredClone	815,483 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var obj = {
  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...'
  }
};

Tests:

JSON.stringify + JSON.parse
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj));
structuredClone
structuredClone(obj);