Remove helpers.deepFreeze and call Object.freeze only on things that need it for ~11% time reduction measured via profile-fixture.mjs on Apple Silicon M1.

test/markdownlint-test-custom-rules.js

@@ -1200,6 +1200,39 @@ test("customRulesAsyncThrowsInSyncContext", (t) => {
   );
 });
 
+test("customRulesParamsAreFrozen", (t) => {
+  const options = {
+    "customRules": [
+      {
+        "names": [ "name" ],
+        "description": "description",
+        "tags": [ "tag" ],
+        "function":
+          (params) => {
+            const pending = [ params ];
+            let current = null;
+            while ((current = pending.shift())) {
+              t.true(Object.isFrozen(current) || (current === params));
+              for (const name of Object.getOwnPropertyNames(current)) {
+                const value = current[name];
+                if (value && (typeof value === "object")) {
+                  pending.push(value);
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          }
+      }
+    ],
+    "files": [
+      "CONTRIBUTING.md",
+      "README.md",
+      "doc/CustomRules.md",
+      "doc/Rules.md"
+    ]
+  };
+  return markdownlint.promises.markdownlint(options).then(() => null);
+});
+
 test("customRulesParamsAreStable", (t) => {
   t.plan(4);
   const config1 = { "value1": 10 };

test/markdownlint-test-helpers.js

@@ -953,40 +953,6 @@ test("applyFixes", (t) => {
   }
 });
 
-test("deepFreeze", (t) => {
-  t.plan(6);
-  const obj = {
-    "prop": true,
-    "func": () => true,
-    "sub": {
-      "prop": [ 1 ],
-      "sub": {
-        "prop": "one"
-      }
-    }
-  };
-  t.is(helpers.deepFreeze(obj), obj, "Did not return object.");
-  for (const scenario of [
-    () => {
-      obj.prop = false;
-    },
-    () => {
-      obj.func = () => false;
-    },
-    () => {
-      obj.sub.prop = [];
-    },
-    () => {
-      obj.sub.prop[0] = 0;
-    },
-    () => {
-      obj.sub.sub.prop = "zero";
-    }
-  ]) {
-    t.throws(scenario, null, "Assigned to frozen object.");
-  }
-});
-
 test("forEachLink", (t) => {
   t.plan(291);
   const testCases = [