Run results for: uri Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for Shallow Array of Strings.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0

Browser: Firefox 120

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

JSON.stringify

1.1M/s

_.isEqual

955K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.stringify	1,121,253 Ops/sec
_.isEqual	954,825 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

window.foo = {
  description: 'Creates a deep copy of source, which should be an object or an array.',
  myNumber: 123456789,
  myBoolean: true,
  jayson: {
    stringify: 'JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string....',
    parse: 'JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string...'
  }
};
window.bar = {
  description: 'Creates a deep copy of source, which should be an object or an array.',
  myNumber: 123456789,
  myBoolean: true,
  jayson: {
    stringify: 'JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string....',
    parse: 'JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string...'
  }
};

Tests:

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

Run results for: uri Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for Shallow Array of Strings.

Test on isEqual performance

_.isEqual

JSON.stringify