Run results for: Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Deep Comparison for Shallow Array of Strings but comparing to a hardcoded string

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

JSON.stringify

8.3M/s

_.isEqual

7.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.stringify	8,348,864 Ops/sec
_.isEqual	7,402,904 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',
    {
        banana: {
            color: 'yellow'
        },
    },
];
window.bar = [{
        banana: {
            color: 'yellow'
        },
    },
    'cat',
    'dog',
    'bird',
];

Tests:

_.isEqual
_.isEqual(window.foo, window.bar)
JSON.stringify
'["cat","dog","bird",{"banana":{"color":"yellow"}}]' === JSON.stringify(window.bar);

Run results for: Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Deep Comparison for Shallow Array of Strings but comparing to a hardcoded string

Test on isEqual performance

_.isEqual

JSON.stringify