Run results for: value comparison vs. JSON.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

value comparison

8.0M/s

stringify comparison

3.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ value comparison	8,039,992 Ops/sec
stringify comparison	3,427,520 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

oldField = {
    defaultValue: 'a'
}
newField = {
    defaultValue: 'b'
}

Tests:

value comparison
oldField.defaultValue !== newField.defaultValue
stringify comparison
JSON.stringify(oldField.defaultValue) !== JSON.stringify(newField.defaultValue)