Run results for: Compare lodash isEmpty and length comparison on arrays

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 74

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
isEmpty empty array	2495590.0 Ops/sec
length empty array	6667424.0 Ops/sec
isEmpty array of strings	2536920.0 Ops/sec
length array of strings	6590699.0 Ops/sec
isEmpty array of objects	2586183.0 Ops/sec
length array of objects	6705742.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

// empty array
window.foo1 = [];

// array of strings
window.foo2 = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'];

// array of objects
window.foo3 = [{ a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } }, { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } }, { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2, c: { a: 1, b: 2 } } }];

Tests:

isEmpty empty array
_.isEmpty(window.foo1);
length empty array
window.foo1.length === 0;
isEmpty array of strings
_.isEmpty(window.foo2);
length array of strings
window.foo2.length === 0;
isEmpty array of objects
_.isEmpty(window.foo3);
length array of objects
window.foo3.length === 0;

Run results for: Compare lodash isEmpty and length comparison on arrays

isEmpty empty array

length empty array

isEmpty array of strings

length array of strings

isEmpty array of objects

length array of objects