Benchmark: Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for More Complicated Arrays of 1 object each

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lodash@4.17.4/lodash.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

// Test data setup
window.fills1 = [
  {
    fill: "#FF5733",
    type: "SOLID",
    blendMode: "normal",
    visible: true,
    imgUrl: "",
    scaleFactor: 1,
    scaleMode: "FIT",
    uvTransform: { a: 1, b: 0, c: 0, d: 1, tx: 0, ty: 0 },
    color: { r: 255, g: 87, b: 51, a: 1 }
  }
];

window.fills2 = [
  {
    fill: "#FF5733",
    type: "SOLID",
    blendMode: "multiply", // Different value here
    visible: true,
    imgUrl: "",
    scaleFactor: 1,
    scaleMode: "FIT",
    uvTransform: { a: 1, b: 0, c: 0, d: 1, tx: 0, ty: 0 },
    color: { r: 255, g: 87, b: 51, a: 1 }
  }
];

window.fills3 = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(window.fills1));

Tests:

_.isEqual
const result12 = _.isEqual(window.fills1, window.fills2); const result13 = _.isEqual(window.fills1, window.fills3); const result23 = _.isEqual(window.fills2, window.fills3); console.log(result12, result13, result23);
JSON.stringify
const result12 = JSON.stringify(window.fills1) === JSON.stringify(window.fills2); const result13 = JSON.stringify(window.fills1) === JSON.stringify(window.fills3); const result23 = JSON.stringify(window.fills2) === JSON.stringify(window.fills3); console.log(result12, result13, result23);
JSON.stringify with sorted keys
const sortedStringify = (obj) => JSON.stringify(obj, Object.keys(obj || {}).sort()); const result12 = sortedStringify(window.fills1) === sortedStringify(window.fills2); const result13 = sortedStringify(window.fills1) === sortedStringify(window.fills3); const result23 = sortedStringify(window.fills2) === sortedStringify(window.fills3); console.log(result12, result13, result23);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
_.isEqual
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify with sorted keys

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 10 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 137 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
_.isEqual	225258.5 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	206861.6 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify with sorted keys	253263.8 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for More Complicated Arrays of 1 object each (version: 1)

Test on isEqual performance

Comparing performance of: _.isEqual vs JSON.stringify vs JSON.stringify with sorted keys

Created: 10 months ago by: Guest

Jump to the latest result

_.isEqual

JSON.stringify

JSON.stringify with sorted keys

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A