How to efficiently count the number of keys/properties of an object in JavaScript?

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What's the fastest way to count the number of keys/properties of an object? It it possible to do this without iterating over the object? i.e. without doing

var count = 0;
for (k in myobj) if (myobj.hasOwnProperty(k)) count++;

Firefox provides a magic __count__ property, but this isn't available in other implementations.

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