Run results for: Lodash isEqual vs JSON stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4636.4 Safari/537.36 OPR/81.0.4183.0 (Edition developer)

Browser: Opera 81

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash cloneDeep	3514105.8 Ops/sec
Json clone	383280.0 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);

Run results for: Lodash isEqual vs JSON stringify

Lodash cloneDeep

Json clone