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JavaScript

JSON.unflatten = function(data) {
    "use strict";
    if (Object(data) !== data || Array.isArray(data))
        return data;
    var resultholder = {};
    for (var p in data) {
        var cur = resultholder,
            prop = "",
            m = p.split("."),
            x, y;
        while(m.length) {
            x = m[0].indexOf("[");
            cur = cur[prop] || (cur[prop] = (x === 0 ? [] : {}));
            if(x > 0) {
                prop = m[0].substring(0, x);
                m[0] = m[0].substring(x);
            } else if(x === 0) {
                y = m[0].indexOf("]", 1)
                prop = m[0].substring(1, y);
                m[0] = m[0].substring(y + 1);
            } else {
                prop = m[0]
                m[0] = "";
            }
            if(m[0] === "") {
                m.shift();
            }
        }
        cur[prop] = data[p];
    }
    return resultholder[""];
};
JSON.flatten = function(data) {
    var result = {};
    function recurse (cur, prop) {
        if (Object(cur) !== cur) {
            result[prop] = cur;
        } else if (Array.isArray(cur)) {
             for(var i=0, l=cur.length; i<l; i++)
                 recurse(cur[i], prop + "[" + i + "]");
            if (l == 0)
                result[prop] = [];
        } else {
            var isEmpty = true;
            for (var p in cur) {
                isEmpty = false;
                recurse(cur[p], prop ? prop+"."+p : p);
            }
            if (isEmpty)
                result[prop] = {};
        }
    }
    recurse(data, "");
    return result;
}

function benchmark() {
    var tries = 2;
    var count = 5;
    var result = [];
    var time, temp, noOpt;
    for(var x=0; x<tries; x++) {
        noOpt = [];
        time = Date.now();
        for(var i=0; i<count; i++) {
            temp = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(fillObj({}, 4)));
            touchObj(temp, noOpt);
        }
        time = Date.now() - time;
        result.push("Nested : " +...