Benchmark: lodash.isEqual vs fast-deep-equal vs stable-hash-compare

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lodash@4.17.20/lodash.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

function equal(a, b) {
    if (a === b) return true;

    if (a && b && typeof a == 'object' && typeof b == 'object') {
        if (a.constructor !== b.constructor) return false;

        var length, i, keys;
        if (Array.isArray(a)) {
            length = a.length;
            if (length != b.length) return false;
            for (i = length; i-- !== 0;)
                if (!equal(a[i], b[i])) return false;
            return true;
        }



        if (a.constructor === RegExp) return a.source === b.source && a.flags === b.flags;
        if (a.valueOf !== Object.prototype.valueOf) return a.valueOf() === b.valueOf();
        if (a.toString !== Object.prototype.toString) return a.toString() === b.toString();

        keys = Object.keys(a);
        length = keys.length;
        if (length !== Object.keys(b).length) return false;

        for (i = length; i-- !== 0;)
            if (!Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(b, keys[i])) return false;

        for (i = length; i-- !== 0;) {
            var key = keys[i];

            if (!equal(a[key], b[key])) return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    // true if both NaN, false otherwise
    return a !== a && b !== b;
};

const isUndefined = v => v === undefined
const table = new WeakMap();
let counter = 0;
const stableHash = (arg) => {
    const type = typeof arg;
    const constructor = arg && arg.constructor;
    const isDate = constructor == Date;
    let result;
    let index;
    if (Object(arg) === arg && !isDate && constructor != RegExp) {
        result = table.get(arg);
        if (result) return result;
        result = ++counter + '~';
        table.set(arg, result);
        if (constructor == Array) {
            result = '@';
            for (index = 0; index < arg.length; index++) {
                result += stableHash(arg[index]) + ',';
            }
            table.set(arg, result);
        }
        if (constructor == Object) {
            result = '#';
            const keys = Object.keys(arg).sort();
            while (!isUndefined(index = keys.pop())) {
                if (!isUndefined(arg[index])) {
                    result += index + ':' + stableHash(arg[index]) + ',';
                }
            }
            table.set(arg, result);
        }
    } else {
        result = isDate ? arg.toJSON() : type == 'symbol' ? arg.toString() : type == 'string' ? JSON.stringify(arg) : '' + arg;
    }
    return result;
};

function compare(currentData, newData) {
    return stableHash(currentData) == stableHash(newData)
}

// 1 level deep
var data = [{
        description: 'equal numbers',
        value1: 1,
        value2: 1,
        equal: true,
    },
    {
        description: 'not equal numbers',
        value1: 1,
        value2: 2,
        equal: false,
    },
    {
        description: 'number and array are not equal',
        value1: 1,
        value2: [],
        equal: false,
    },
    {
        description: '0 and null are not equal',
        value1: 0,
        value2: null,
        equal: false,
    },
    {
        description: 'equal strings',
        value1: 'a',
        value2: 'a',
        equal: true,
    },
    {
        description: 'big object',
        value1: {
            prop1: 'value1',
            prop2: 'value2',
            prop3: 'value3',
            prop4: {
                subProp1: 'sub value1',
                subProp2: {
                    subSubProp1: 'sub sub value1',
                    subSubProp2: [
                        1,
                        2,
                        {
                            prop2: 1,
                            prop: 2
                        },
                        4,
                        5,
                    ],
                },
            },
            prop5: 1000,
            prop6: new Date(2016, 2, 10),
        },
        value2: {
            prop5: 1000,
            prop3: 'value3',
            prop1: 'value1',
            prop2: 'value2',
            prop6: new Date('2016/03/10'),
            prop4: {
                subProp2: {
                    subSubProp1: 'sub sub value1',
                    subSubProp2: [
                        1,
                        2,
                        {
                            prop2: 1,
                            prop: 2
                        },
                        4,
                        5,
                    ],
                },
                subProp1: 'sub value1',
            },
        },
        equal: true,
    },
];

Tests:

lodash
data.forEach((item) => { _.isEqual(item.value1, item.value2); });
fast-deep-equal
data.forEach((item) => { equal(item.value1, item.value2); });
stable-hash-compare
data.forEach((item) => { compare(item.value1, item.value2) } )

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
lodash
fast-deep-equal
stable-hash-compare

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 9 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 135 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
lodash	585763.6 Ops/sec
fast-deep-equal	2010523.5 Ops/sec
stable-hash-compare	2357477.0 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 6 months ago):

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Based on the provided data, I will attempt to answer the question.

It appears that we are comparing three different equality check functions: `lodash.isEqual`, `fast-deep-equal` (which is also known as `stable-hash-compare`), and `equal`.

From the latest benchmark result, we can see that:

* `fast-deep-equal` has a lower execution rate than both `lodash.isEqual` and `equal`.
* `stable-hash-compare` has a higher execution rate than both `lodash.isEqual` and `equal`.

Given this information, it is difficult to determine which function is the fastest in absolute terms. However, based on the benchmark results alone, we can conclude that:

* The order of performance from fastest to slowest is: fast-deep-equal ≈ stable-hash-compare > equal
* `fast-deep-equal` has a slight edge over `stable-hash-compare`.

However, it's essential to note that this conclusion is based solely on the benchmark results and may not reflect the actual performance characteristics of each function in all scenarios. Additionally, the performance differences between these functions might be affected by various factors such as the specific use case, data type, and other external influences.

If you would like me to make any further analysis or provide additional insights, please feel free to ask!

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lodash.isEqual vs fast-deep-equal vs stable-hash-compare (version: 0)

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lodash

fast-deep-equal

stable-hash-compare

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 6 months ago):