Run results for: Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for Shallow Array of Strings.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

_.isEqual

5.3M/s

JSON.stringify

3.7M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ _.isEqual	5,322,252 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	3,683,034 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', 'bird'];
window.bar = ['cat', 'dog', 'bird'];

Tests: