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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.61 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 94

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
_.isEqual	960298.8 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	1156823.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lodash@4.17.4/lodash.min.js"></script>

AخA
 
<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'];

 
window.foo = ['cat', 'dog', 'bird'];window.bar = ['cat', 'dog', 'bird'];

Tests:

_.isEqual
_.isEqual(window.foo, window.bar)
_.isEqual(window.foo, window.bar)
JSON.stringify
'["cat","dog","bird"]' === JSON.stringify(window.bar);
'["cat","dog","bird"]' === JSON.stringify(window.bar);