Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; PRU_IE; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Browser: IE 11

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	13766.6 Ops/sec
Json clone	70232.2 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);
Json clone
myCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(MyObject));

Run results for: Lodash cloneDeep vs JSON Clone

Lodash cloneDeep

Json clone