go - Quicker way to deepcopy objects in golang, JSON vs gob

Question

I am using go 1.9. And I want to deepcopy value of object into another object. I try to do it with encoding/gob and encoding/json. But it takes more time for gob encoding than json encoding. I see some other questions like this and they suggest that gob encoding should be quicker. But I see exact opposite behaviour. Can someone tell me if I am doing something wrong? Or any better and quicker way to deepcopy than these two? My object's struct is complex and nested.

The test code:

package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "encoding/gob"
    "encoding/json"
    "log"
    "time"

    "strconv"
)

// Test ...
type Test struct {
    Prop1 int
    Prop2 string
}

// Clone deep-copies a to b
func Clone(a, b interface{}) {

    buff := new(bytes.Buffer)
    enc := gob.NewEncoder(buff)
    dec := gob.NewDecoder(buff)
    enc.Encode(a)
    dec.Decode(b)
}

// DeepCopy deepcopies a to b using json marshaling
func DeepCopy(a, b interface{}) {
    byt, _ := json.Marshal(a)
    json.Unmarshal(byt, b)
}

func main() {
    i := 0
    tClone := time.Duration(0)
    tCopy := time.Duration(0)
    end := 3000
    for {
        if i == end {
            break
        }

        r := Test{Prop1: i, Prop2: strconv.Itoa(i)}
        var rNew Test
        t0 := time.Now()
        Clone(r, &rNew)
        t2 := time.Now().Sub(t0)
        tClone += t2

        r2 := Test{Prop1: i, Prop2: strconv.Itoa(i)}
        var rNew2 Test
        t0 = time.Now()
        DeepCopy(&r2, &rNew2)
        t2 = time.Now().Sub(t0)
        tCopy += t2

        i++
    }
    log.Printf("Total items %+v, Clone avg. %+v, DeepCopy avg. %+v, Total Difference %+v
", i, tClone/3000, tCopy/3000, (tClone - tCopy))
}

I get following output:

Total items 3000, Clone avg. 30.883μs, DeepCopy avg. 6.747μs, Total Difference 72.409084ms

Answer 1

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