Run results for: Lodash 4.17.21 isEqual vs JSON.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/115.0.5790.130 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 115

Operating system: iOS 16.5

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash with same object	5336122.5 Ops/sec
Lodash with equal objects	769649.0 Ops/sec
Lodash with different objects	1770817.5 Ops/sec
Lodash with different types	4658733.5 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify with same object	1199172.0 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify with equal objects	1209575.1 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify with different objects	1421776.0 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify with different types	1237812.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.21/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var MyObject = {
  description: 'This is an object',
  myNumber: 123456789,
  myBoolean: true,
  json: {
    stringify: 'JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string....',
    parse: 'JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string...'
  }
};

var MyObjectCopy = {
  description: 'This is an object',
  myNumber: 123456789,
  myBoolean: true,
  json: {
    stringify: 'JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string....',
    parse: 'JSON.parse() method parses a JSON string...'
  }
};

var MyObject2 = {
  description: 'This is a different object',
};

var MyObject3 = ["This", "is", "an", "array"]

Tests:

Lodash with same object
_.isEqual(MyObject, MyObject);
Lodash with equal objects
_.isEqual(MyObject, MyObjectCopy);
Lodash with different objects
_.isEqual(MyObject, MyObject2);
Lodash with different types
_.isEqual(MyObject, MyObject3);
JSON.stringify with same object
JSON.stringify(MyObject) === JSON.stringify(MyObject)
JSON.stringify with equal objects
JSON.stringify(MyObject) === JSON.stringify(MyObjectCopy)
JSON.stringify with different objects
JSON.stringify(MyObject) === JSON.stringify(MyObject2)
JSON.stringify with different types
JSON.stringify(MyObject) === JSON.stringify(MyObject3)

Run results for: Lodash 4.17.21 isEqual vs JSON.stringify

Lodash with same object

Lodash with equal objects

Lodash with different objects

Lodash with different types

JSON.stringify with same object

JSON.stringify with equal objects

JSON.stringify with different objects

JSON.stringify with different types