Run results for: lodash.isEqual vs fast-deep-equal vs local

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
lodash	29520.6 Ops/sec
fast-deep-equal	6234.3 Ops/sec
deepEqual	7880.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lodash@4.17.20/lodash.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

function equal(a, b) {
  if (a === b) return true;

  if (a && b && typeof a == 'object' && typeof b == 'object') {
    if (a.constructor !== b.constructor) return false;

    var length, i, keys;
    if (Array.isArray(a)) {
      length = a.length;
      if (length != b.length) return false;
      for (i = length; i-- !== 0;)
        if (!equal(a[i], b[i])) return false;
      return true;
    }



    if (a.constructor === RegExp) return a.source === b.source && a.flags === b.flags;
    if (a.valueOf !== Object.prototype.valueOf) return a.valueOf() === b.valueOf();
    if (a.toString !== Object.prototype.toString) return a.toString() === b.toString();

    keys = Object.keys(a);
    length = keys.length;
    if (length !== Object.keys(b).length) return false;

    for (i = length; i-- !== 0;)
      if (!Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(b, keys[i])) return false;

    for (i = length; i-- !== 0;) {
      var key = keys[i];

      if (!equal(a[key], b[key])) return false;
    }

    return true;
  }

  // true if both NaN, false otherwise
  return a!==a && b!==b;
};

// 1 level deep
var data = [
                    {
                        description: 'equal numbers',
                        value1: 1,
                        value2: 1,
                        equal: true,
                    },
                    {
                        description: 'not equal numbers',
                        value1: 1,
                        value2: 2,
                        equal: false,
                    },
                    {
                        description: 'number and array are not equal',
                        value1: 1,
                        value2: [],
                        equal: false,
                    },
                    {
                        description: '0 and object are not equal',
                        value1: 0,
                        value2: {},
                        equal: false,
                    },
                    {
                        description: 'equal strings',
                        value1: 'a',
                        value2: 'a',
                        equal: true,
                    },
                    {
                        description: 'big object',
                        value1: {
                            prop1: 'value1',
                            prop2: 'value2',
                            prop3: 'value3',
                            prop4: {
                                subProp1: 'sub value1',
                                subProp2: {
                                    subSubProp1: 'sub sub value1',
                                    subSubProp2: [
                                        1,
                                        2,
                                        { prop2: 1, prop: 2 },
                                        4,
                                        5,
                                    ],
                                },
                            },
                            prop5: 1000,
                            prop6: new Date(2016, 2, 10),
                        },
                        value2: {
                            prop5: 1000,
                            prop3: 'value3',
                            prop1: 'value1',
                            prop2: 'value2',
                            prop6: new Date('2016/03/10'),
                            prop4: {
                                subProp2: {
                                    subSubProp1: 'sub sub value1',
                                    subSubProp2: [
                                        1,
                                        2,
                                        { prop2: 1, prop: 2 },
                                        4,
                                        5,
                                    ],
                                },
                                subProp1: 'sub value1',
                            },
                        },
                        equal: true,
                    },
                ];

Tests:

lodash
data.forEach((item) => { _.isEqual(item.value1, item.value2); });
fast-deep-equal
data.forEach((item) => { equal(item.value1, item.value2); });
deepEqual
function deepEqual(object1, object2) { const keys1 = Object.keys(object1); const keys2 = Object.keys(object2); if (keys1.length !== keys2.length) { return false; } for (const key of keys1) { const val1 = object1[key]; const val2 = object2[key]; const areObjects = isObject(val1) && isObject(val2); if ( areObjects && !deepEqual(val1, val2) || !areObjects && val1 !== val2 ) { return false; } } return true; } function isObject(object) { return object != null && typeof object === 'object'; } data.forEach((item) => { deepEqual(item.value1, item.value2); });

Run results for: lodash.isEqual vs fast-deep-equal vs local

lodash

fast-deep-equal

deepEqual