Run results for: Lodash isEqual test vs strict equality check

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.81 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 94

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
_.isEqual Level 1	827656.2 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify Level 1	398470.2 Ops/sec
_.isEqual Level 2	533189.1 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify Level 2	389928.0 Ops/sec
_.isEqual Level 3	393521.2 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify Level 3	389615.3 Ops/sec
equality check	3341861.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

// 1 level deep
window.foo1 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } };
window.bar1 = { a: 1, b: 3, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } };

// 2 levels deep
window.foo2 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } };
window.bar2 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 3, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } };

// 3 levels deep
window.foo3 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } };
window.bar3 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 4 } } };

Tests:

_.isEqual Level 1
_.isEqual(window.foo1, window.bar1)
JSON.stringify Level 1
JSON.stringify(window.foo1) === JSON.stringify(window.bar1);
_.isEqual Level 2
_.isEqual(window.foo2, window.bar2)
JSON.stringify Level 2
JSON.stringify(window.foo2) === JSON.stringify(window.bar2);
_.isEqual Level 3
_.isEqual(window.foo3, window.bar3)
JSON.stringify Level 3
JSON.stringify(window.foo3) === JSON.stringify(window.bar3);
equality check
window.foo3 === window.bar3

Run results for: Lodash isEqual test vs strict equality check

Test on isEqual performance vs immutable

_.isEqual Level 1

JSON.stringify Level 1

_.isEqual Level 2

JSON.stringify Level 2

_.isEqual Level 3

JSON.stringify Level 3

equality check