Benchmark: Ramda equals vs JSON.stringify

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ramda/0.25.0/ramda.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var data = [{foo: {bar: {foo: {bar: ''}}}}, {}, {}];

Tests:

Ramda
var result = R.equals(data, [{foo: {bar: {foo: {bar: ''}}}}, {}, {}]);
JSON.stringify
var result = JSON.stringify(data) === JSON.stringify([{foo: {bar: {foo: {bar: ''}}}}, {}, {}]);

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 7 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 7 runs

JSON.stringify

2.7M/s

Ramda

312K/s

Fastest: JSON.stringify (8.7x faster)

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✓ JSON.stringify: 2,706,942 ops/sec
• Ramda: 312,192 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Ramda
JSON.stringify

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 7 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.127 Safari/537.36 OPR/60.3.3004.55692

Browser/OS: Opera 60 on Linux

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JSON.stringify

36K/s

Ramda

8K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.stringify	36,069 Ops/sec
Ramda	7,537 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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I'll explain what's being tested in the provided benchmark.

**Benchmark Overview**

The benchmark compares the performance of two approaches: using Ramda's `equals` function and using `JSON.stringify`. The goal is to determine which approach is faster when comparing two JSON objects.

**Options Compared**

There are only two options being compared:

1. **Ramda's `equals` function**: This function is part of the Ramda library, a functional programming library for JavaScript.
2. **`JSON.stringify`**: This is a built-in JavaScript function that converts a value to a JSON string.

**Pros and Cons**

* **Ramda's `equals` function**:
	+ Pros: More flexible and expressive than `JSON.stringify`, as it allows for more complex comparisons (e.g., comparing nested objects).
	+ Cons: May have higher overhead due to its functional programming nature and the need to import an external library.
* **`JSON.stringify`**:
	+ Pros: Fast, lightweight, and widely supported. It's a built-in function that doesn't require any additional imports.
	+ Cons: Less flexible than `equals`, as it only converts values to strings without comparing their contents.

**Other Considerations**

When using `JSON.stringify`, the comparison is done by checking if two JSON strings are equal. This means that any differences in whitespace, indentation, or formatting will be considered significant and may lead to incorrect results. In contrast, Ramda's `equals` function can handle these differences and provide a more accurate comparison.

**Library: Ramda**

Ramda is a functional programming library for JavaScript that provides a set of higher-order functions for data processing and manipulation. The `equals` function is one of its most popular features, which allows for comparing values in a flexible and expressive way.

**Special JS Feature/Syntax (None)**

There are no special JavaScript features or syntax used in this benchmark.

**Other Alternatives**

If you wanted to compare other approaches, some alternatives could be:

* Using `JSON.parse` and `JSON.stringify` together
* Implementing a custom comparison function using plain JavaScript
* Using a different library, such as Lodash's `isEqual`

However, these alternatives would likely have similar performance characteristics to the two options being compared in this benchmark.

Ramda equals vs JSON.stringify (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: `Ramda vs JSON.stringify`

Created: 7 years ago by: Guest

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Ramda

JSON.stringify

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 7 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 7 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

Ramda equals vs JSON.stringify (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Ramda vs JSON.stringify

Created: 7 years ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

Ramda

JSON.stringify

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 7 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 7 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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