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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/138.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 138

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

_.isEqual

15.0M/s

JSON.stringify

13.5M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ _.isEqual	14,955,290 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	13,486,216 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: