Run results for: Lodash vs Native Date string comparison

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 130

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

String Parse with lodash

2.9M/s

Date Object without lodash

760K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ String Parse with lodash	2,906,476 Ops/sec
Date Object without lodash	759,932 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

Date Object without lodash
const articles = ["10-2-2021", "9-3-2022", "2-4-2021"]; const byYear = {}; articles.forEach(el => { const year = new Date(el).getFullYear(); const objYear = byYear[year]; byYear[year] = Array.isArray(objYear) ? [...objYear, el] : [el]; });
String Parse with lodash
const articles = ["10-2-2021", "9-3-2022", "2-4-2021"]; const articleYear = (posted_date) => posted_date.split("-").pop(); const articlesByYear = _.groupBy(articles, articleYear);