The object access benchmarks last weeks was not surprising but a factor 5 between access "obj.a" and "obj.getA()" is interesting. In this second part I check the access time for properties on objects, created with ECMAScript 3 getter/setter and with the ECMAScript 5 Object.defineProperty variant (works on IE8+, FF3.7+, newest Webkit and Chrome 5) - see more on ECMAScript 5 compatibility table. Oliver asked to add getter tests - and the results produce differences with factor 15-100.Read more
