Run results for: Lodash 4.17.21 isEqual vs JSON.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/115.0.1901.188

Browser: Chrome 115

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash with same object	1773104.4 Ops/sec
Lodash with equal objects	277555.1 Ops/sec
Lodash with different objects	535905.1 Ops/sec
Lodash with different types	1095023.1 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify with same object	170078.6 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify with equal objects	258546.2 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify with different objects	440289.5 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify with different types	445333.8 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