Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs native cloneDeep

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.101 Safari/537.36 Edg/91.0.864.48

Browser: Chrome 91

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	148665.6 Ops/sec
Native map deep slice(turns objects into arrays)	1820380.0 Ops/sec
Native JSON parse	132434.9 Ops/sec
Native map deep slice at 0(turns objects into arrays)	1781632.0 Ops/sec
Native map(shallow clone)	3327183.0 Ops/sec
Recursive deep clone	113090.2 Ops/sec
Map deep clone	123533.8 Ops/sec
Object.assign shallow clone	1793600.0 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 testArray = [{
  description: 'Random description.',
  testNumber: 123456789,
  testBoolean: true,
  testObject: {
    testString: 'test string',
    testNumber: 12345
  },
  testArray: [{
    myName: 'test name',
    myNumber: 123245
  }]
},{
  description: 'Random description.',
  testNumber: 123456789,
  testBoolean: true,
  testObject: {
    testString: 'test string',
    testNumber: 12345
  },
  testArray: [{
    myName: 'test name',
    myNumber: 123245
  }]
}];

var testCopy = null;

var deepClone = function(obj) {
   var out;
    if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
        out = [];
        for (var index = 0; index < obj.length; ++index) {
            let subArray = obj[index];
            out.push((subArray === null) ? subArray : (subArray instanceof Date) ? new Date(subArray.valueOf()) : (typeof subArray === 'object') ? deepClone(subArray) : subArray);
        }
    } else {
        out = {};
        for (var key in obj) {
            var subObject = obj[key];
            out[key] = subObject === null ? subObject : subObject instanceof Date ? new Date(subObject.valueOf()) : (typeof subObject === 'object') ? deepClone(subObject) : subObject;
            
           
        }
    }
    return out;
};

Tests:

Lodash cloneDeep
testCopy = _.cloneDeep(testArray);
Native map deep slice(turns objects into arrays)
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => testArray.slice());
Native JSON parse
testCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(testArray));
Native map deep slice at 0(turns objects into arrays)
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => testArray.slice(0));
Native map(shallow clone)
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => arr);
Recursive deep clone
testCopy = deepClone(testArray);
Map deep clone
testCopy = testArray.map(arr => deepClone(arr));
Object.assign shallow clone
testCopy = Object.assign([...testArray]);

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs native cloneDeep

compare array copy/clone methods

Lodash cloneDeep

Native map deep slice(turns objects into arrays)

Native JSON parse

Native map deep slice at 0(turns objects into arrays)

Native map(shallow clone)

Recursive deep clone

Map deep clone

Object.assign shallow clone