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Run results for: Lodash.isEqual vs JSON.stringify Equality Comparison for complex objects

Test on isEqual performance

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 104
Windows
Desktop
2 years ago
Test name Executions per second
_.isEqual 277354.0 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify 169632.5 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lodash@4.17.4/lodash.min.js"></script>
Script Preparation code:
 
var now = new Date()
window.foo = [{ one: 'cat', two: { one: 'dog', two: now } }, 'bird', ['yellow', 'green', { blue: 'purple' }]];
window.bar = [{ one: 'cat', two: { one: 'dog', two: now } }, 'bird', ['yellow', 'green', { blue: 'purple' }]];
Tests:

  • _.isEqual

     
    _.isEqual(window.foo, window.bar)

  • JSON.stringify

     
    JSON.stringify(window.foo) === JSON.stringify(window.bar);