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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.77 YaBrowser/20.11.0.918 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36

Browser: Yandex Browser 20

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
_.isEqual	1278626.0 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	731049.9 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:

_.isEqual
_.isEqual(window.foo, window.bar)
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(window.foo) === JSON.stringify(window.bar);

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

Test on isEqual performance

_.isEqual

JSON.stringify