The V8 engine has this optimization feature.

To more efficient work with classes dynamic properties V8 creates intermediate classes: every time you add a new property in run time V8 cashes a new (hidden) class and the reference to it (if there isn't already such cashed sample).

So, if you add the same properties in a different order - there will be different classes in a cache chain. This affects performance.

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