Benchmark: compare shallow vs reference shallow

HTML Preparation code:

<!--your preparation HTML code goes here-->
<script src='https://unpkg.com/fast-equals@5.3.2/dist/min/index.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var sameObjRef = { id: 1, name: "test" };
var sameArrRef = [1, 2, 3];

var testCases = {
  // Case 1: Primitive values (should hit fast path)
  sameNumber: { previous: 42, current: 42 },
  differentNumbers: { previous: 42, current: 43 },
  sameString: { previous: "hello", current: "hello" },
  differentStrings: { previous: "hello", current: "world" },
  
  // Case 2: null/undefined values
  bothNull: { previous: null, current: null },
  bothUndefined: { previous: undefined, current: undefined },
  nullVsUndefined: { previous: null, current: undefined },
  nullVsObject: { previous: null, current: { a: 1 } },
  undefinedVsObject: { previous: undefined, current: { a: 1 } },
  
  // Case 3: Same object references (should hit fast path)
  sameObjectRef: { 
    previous: sameObjRef, 
    current: sameObjRef 
  },
  sameArrayRef: {
    previous: sameArrRef,
    current: sameArrRef
  },
  
  // Case 4: Different objects with same content (requires shallowEqual)
  differentObjectsSameContent: {
    previous: { id: 1, name: "test" },
    current: { id: 1, name: "test" }
  },
  differentArraysSameContent: {
    previous: [1, 2, 3],
    current: [1, 2, 3]
  },
  
  // Case 5: Different objects with different content
  differentObjects: {
    previous: { id: 1, name: "test" },
    current: { id: 2, name: "different" }
  },
  differentArrays: {
    previous: [1, 2, 3],
    current: [4, 5, 6]
  },
  
  // Case 6: Nested objects (shallowEqual won't catch deep differences)
  nestedObjectsSame: {
    previous: { a: 1, b: sameObjRef },
    current: { a: 1, b: sameObjRef }
  },
  nestedObjectsDifferent: {
    previous: { a: 1, b: { nested: true } },
    current: { a: 1, b: { nested: false } }
  },
  
  // Case 7: Mixed types
  objectVsArray: {
    previous: { 0: 1, 1: 2 },
    current: [1, 2]
  },
  numberVsStringNumber: {
    previous: 42,
    current: "42"
  }
};

Tests:

Checks before shallow
const {shallowEqual} = window['fast-equals']; function optimizedComparison(prevVal, newVal) { let normalizedPrevious = prevVal.current ?? undefined; let normalizedNew = newVal.current ?? undefined; let areValuesEqual; if (normalizedPrevious === normalizedNew) { areValuesEqual = true; } else if (normalizedPrevious == null || normalizedNew == null) { areValuesEqual = false; } else { areValuesEqual = shallowEqual(normalizedPrevious, normalizedNew); } return areValuesEqual; } Object.entries(testCases).forEach(([testName, testCase]) => { // Set up the refs for this test case let previousValueRef = {current: testCase.previous}; let newValueRef = {current: testCase.current}; optimizedComparison(previousValueRef, newValueRef) });
Just Shallow
const {shallowEqual} = window['fast-equals']; function originalComparison(prevVal, newVal) { return shallowEqual(prevVal.current ?? undefined, newVal.current ?? undefined); } Object.entries(testCases).forEach(([testName, testCase]) => { // Set up the refs for this test case let previousValueRef = {current: testCase.previous}; let newValueRef = {current: testCase.current}; originalComparison(previousValueRef, newValueRef) });

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Previous results

Test case name	Result
Checks before shallow
Just Shallow

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/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 141 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Just Shallow

1.3M/s

Checks before shallow

1.3M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Just Shallow	1,254,725 Ops/sec
Checks before shallow	1,251,322 Ops/sec

compare shallow vs reference shallow (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: `Checks before shallow vs Just Shallow`

Created: 10 months ago by: Registered User

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Checks before shallow

Just Shallow

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

compare shallow vs reference shallow (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: Checks before shallow vs Just Shallow

Created: 10 months ago by: Registered User

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Checks before shallow

Just Shallow

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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