Run results for: Lodash difference (large array) vs Set & Filter

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Set & Filter

115K/s

Lodash

26K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Set & Filter	114,994 Ops/sec
Lodash	25,509 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var arr1 = [];
for(let i = 0; i < 400; i++) {
  arr1.push('' + i);
}

var arr2 = [];
for(let i = 49; i >= 0; i--) {
  arr2.push('' + i);
}

Tests:

Lodash
const notInArr1 = _.difference(arr2, arr1) const notInArr2 = _.difference(arr1, arr2)
Set & Filter
const arr1Set = new Set(); const arr2Set = new Set(); arr1.forEach(value => arr1Set.add(value)); arr2.forEach(value => arr2Set.add(value)); const notInArr1 = arr2.filter(value => !arr1Set.has(value)); const notInArr2 = arr1.filter(value => !arr2Set.has(value));