Run results for: _.isEqual vs dequal vs JSON.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0

Browser: Firefox 134

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Level 1 dequal

2.7M/s

Level 3 stringify

2.1M/s

Level 2 stringify

2.1M/s

Level 1 stringify

2.1M/s

Level 1 isEqual

2.0M/s

Level 2 isEqual

1.2M/s

Level 3 dequal

1.2M/s

Level 2 dequal

1.1M/s

Level 3 isEqual

836K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Level 1 dequal	2,716,228 Ops/sec
Level 3 stringify	2,147,670 Ops/sec
Level 2 stringify	2,127,410 Ops/sec
Level 1 stringify	2,121,042 Ops/sec
Level 1 isEqual	1,978,917 Ops/sec
Level 2 isEqual	1,244,221 Ops/sec
Level 3 dequal	1,226,834 Ops/sec
Level 2 dequal	1,074,957 Ops/sec
Level 3 isEqual	836,093 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lodash@4.17.21/lodash.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/dequal@2.0.2/dist/index.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

// 1 level deep
window.foo1 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } };
window.bar1 = { a: 1, b: 3, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } };

// 2 levels deep
window.foo2 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } };
window.bar2 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 3, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } };

// 3 levels deep
window.foo3 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } };
window.bar3 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 4 } } };

Tests:

Level 1 isEqual
_.isEqual(window.foo1, window.bar1)
Level 1 dequal
dequal.dequal(window.foo1, window.bar1)
Level 1 stringify
JSON.stringify(window.foo1) === JSON.stringify(window.bar1);
Level 2 isEqual
_.isEqual(window.foo2, window.bar2)
Level 2 dequal
dequal.dequal(window.foo2, window.bar2)
Level 2 stringify
JSON.stringify(window.foo2) === JSON.stringify(window.bar2);
Level 3 isEqual
_.isEqual(window.foo3, window.bar3)
Level 3 dequal
dequal.dequal(window.foo3, window.bar3)
Level 3 stringify
JSON.stringify(window.foo3) === JSON.stringify(window.bar3);

Run results for: _.isEqual vs dequal vs JSON.stringify

Test on _.isEqual vs dequal vs JSON.stringify performance

Level 1 isEqual

Level 1 dequal

Level 1 stringify

Level 2 isEqual

Level 2 dequal

Level 2 stringify

Level 3 isEqual

Level 3 dequal

Level 3 stringify