Benchmark: lodash.isEqual vs local recursive function

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

function deepEqual(obj1, obj2) {
    if (obj1 === obj2) {
        return true;
    }
    if (typeof obj1 !== 'object' || obj1 === null || typeof obj2 !== 'object' || obj2 === null) {
        return false;
    }

    const keys1 = Object.keys(obj1);
    const keys2 = Object.keys(obj2);

    if (keys1.length !== keys2.length) {
        return false;
    }

    for (let key of keys1) {
        if (!obj2.hasOwnProperty(key) || !deepEqual(obj1[key], obj2[key])) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

// 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 object are not equal',
                        value1: 0,
                        value2: {},
                        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); });
local function
data.forEach((item) => { deepEqual(item.value1, item.value2); });
deepEqual
function deepEqual(object1, object2) { const keys1 = Object.keys(object1); const keys2 = Object.keys(object2); if (keys1.length !== keys2.length) { return false; } for (const key of keys1) { const val1 = object1[key]; const val2 = object2[key]; const areObjects = isObject(val1) && isObject(val2); if ( areObjects && !deepEqual(val1, val2) || !areObjects && val1 !== val2 ) { return false; } } return true; } function isObject(object) { return object != null && typeof object === 'object'; } data.forEach((item) => { deepEqual(item.value1, item.value2); });

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
lodash
local function
deepEqual

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 136 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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local function

2.0M/s

deepEqual

1.4M/s

lodash

663K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ local function	2,004,519 Ops/sec
deepEqual	1,393,365 Ops/sec
lodash	663,295 Ops/sec

lodash.isEqual vs local recursive function (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: `lodash vs local function vs deepEqual`

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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lodash

local function

deepEqual

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

lodash.isEqual vs local recursive function (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: lodash vs local function vs deepEqual

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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lodash

local function

deepEqual

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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