Run results for: Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for Shallow Array of Strings when comparison is not equal.

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 Edg/131.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

_.isEqual

6.5M/s

JSON.stringify

5.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ _.isEqual	6,508,255 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	5,355,684 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 = ['cat', 'dog', 'frog'];
window.bar = ['cat', 'dog', 'bird'];

Tests: