Benchmark: Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for Shallow complicated of Strings.

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

window.foo = {
  "systemName": "Enterprise Resource Planner",
  "version": "2.1.0",
  "modules": [
    {
      "moduleId": "ERP-FINANCE",
      "moduleName": "Financial Management",
      "features": [
        {
          "featureId": "FIN-GL",
          "featureName": "General Ledger",
          "accessLevels": ["read", "write", "approve"],
          "dependencies": ["FIN-AR", "FIN-AP"]
        },
        {
          "featureId": "FIN-AR",
          "featureName": "Accounts Receivable",
          "accessLevels": ["read", "write"],
          "dependencies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "moduleId": "ERP-HR",
      "moduleName": "Human Resources",
      "features": [
        {
          "featureId": "HR-PAYROLL",
          "featureName": "Payroll",
          "accessLevels": ["read", "process"],
          "dependencies": ["HR-TIMESHEETS"]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "users": [
    {
      "userId": "user123",
      "username": "alice.smith",
      "email": "alice.smith@example.com",
      "roles": [
        {
          "roleName": "Administrator",
          "permissions": [
            {"moduleId": "ERP-FINANCE", "featureId": "FIN-GL", "level": "approve"},
            {"moduleId": "ERP-HR", "featureId": "HR-PAYROLL", "level": "process"}
          ]
        }
      ],
      "isActive": true
    },
    {
      "userId": "user456",
      "username": "bob.johnson",
      "email": "bob.johnson@example.com",
      "roles": [
        {
          "roleName": "Finance Associate",
          "permissions": [
            {"moduleId": "ERP-FINANCE", "featureId": "FIN-GL", "level": "read"},
            {"moduleId": "ERP-FINANCE", "featureId": "FIN-AR", "level": "write"}
          ]
        }
      ],
      "isActive": false
    }
  ],
  "configurations": {
    "loggingLevel": "INFO",
    "database": {
      "type": "PostgreSQL",
      "host": "db.example.com",
      "port": 5432
    }
  }
};
window.bar = {
  "systemName": "Enterprise Resource Planner",
  "version": "2.1.0",
  "modules": [
    {
      "moduleId": "ERP-FINANCE",
      "moduleName": "Financial Management",
      "features": [
        {
          "featureId": "FIN-GL",
          "featureName": "General Ledger",
          "accessLevels": ["read", "write", "approve"],
          "dependencies": ["FIN-AR", "FIN-AP"]
        },
        {
          "featureId": "FIN-AR",
          "featureName": "Accounts Receivable",
          "accessLevels": ["read", "write"],
          "dependencies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "moduleId": "ERP-HR",
      "moduleName": "Human Resources",
      "features": [
        {
          "featureId": "HR-PAYROLL",
          "featureName": "Payroll",
          "accessLevels": ["read", "process"],
          "dependencies": ["HR-TIMESHEETS"]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "users": [
    {
      "userId": "user123",
      "username": "alice.smith",
      "email": "alice.smith@example.com",
      "roles": [
        {
          "roleName": "Administrator",
          "permissions": [
            {"moduleId": "ERP-FINANCE", "featureId": "FIN-GL", "level": "approve"},
            {"moduleId": "ERP-HR", "featureId": "HR-PAYROLL", "level": "process"}
          ]
        }
      ],
      "isActive": true
    },
    {
      "userId": "user456",
      "username": "bob.johnson",
      "email": "bob.johnson@example.com",
      "roles": [
        {
          "roleName": "Finance Associate",
          "permissions": [
            {"moduleId": "ERP-FINANCE", "featureId": "FIN-GL", "level": "read"},
            {"moduleId": "ERP-FINANCE", "featureId": "FIN-AR", "level": "write"}
          ]
        }
      ],
      "isActive": false
    }
  ],
  "configurations": {
    "loggingLevel": "INFO",
    "database": {
      "type": "PostgreSQL",
      "host": "db.example.com",
      "port": 5432
    }
  }
};

Tests:

_.isEqual
_.isEqual(window.foo, window.bar)
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(window.foo) === JSON.stringify(window.bar);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
_.isEqual
JSON.stringify

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 6 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 142 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
_.isEqual	135158.6 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	465464.8 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for Shallow complicated of Strings. (version: 1)

Test on isEqual performance

Comparing performance of: _.isEqual vs JSON.stringify

Created: 6 months ago by: Guest

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_.isEqual

JSON.stringify

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A