Run results for: Lodash isEqual vs JSON stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0

Browser: Firefox 152

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Lodash cloneDeep

99.0M/s

Json clone

1.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Lodash cloneDeep	98,956,744 Ops/sec
Json clone	1,810,487 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var MyObject = {
  description: 'Creates a deep copy of source, which should be an object or an array.',
  myNumber: 123456789,
  myBoolean: true,
  jayson: {
    stringify: 'JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string....',
    parse: 'JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string...'
  }
};

var myCopy = null;

Tests:

Lodash cloneDeep
_.isEqual(MyObject, MyObject);
Json clone
JSON.stringify(MyObject) === JSON.stringify(MyObject);