Run results for: Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for Shallow Object

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

JSON.stringify

743K/s

_.isEqual

385K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.stringify	743,093 Ops/sec
_.isEqual	384,508 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 = {
    "text": "26 698",
    "type": "multilineStyledText",
    "value": 0,
    "className": "",
    "calculated": false,
    "nonEditable": false,
    "data": [
        {
            "type": "p",
            "children": [
                {
                    "text": "26 698"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "formula": ""
}
window.bar = {
    "text": "26 698",
    "type": "multilineStyledText",
    "value": 0,
    "className": "",
    "calculated": false,
    "nonEditable": false,
    "data": [
        {
            "type": "p",
            "children": [
                {
                    "text": "26 698"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "formula": ""
}

Tests:

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

Run results for: Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for Shallow Object

Test on isEqual performance

_.isEqual

JSON.stringify