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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 26

Operating system: iOS 18.7

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 4 months ago

_.isEqual

6.3M/s

JSON.stringify

2.8M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ _.isEqual	6,296,106 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	2,780,130 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: