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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/126.0.6478.35 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 126

Operating system: iOS 17.5

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
_.isEqual	4810155.0 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	3354827.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<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'];

Tests:

_.isEqual
_.isEqual(window.foo, window.bar)
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(window.foo) === JSON.stringify(window.bar);

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

Test on isEqual performance

_.isEqual

JSON.stringify