Run results for: Lodash.isEqual vs Array.toString() Equality Comparison for Shallow Array of Strings.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 75

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
_.isEqual	1079041.6 Ops/sec
Array.toString()	1126916.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

AخA
 
<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'];

 
window.foo = ['cat', 'dog', 'bird'];window.bar = ['cat', 'dog', 'bird'];

Tests:

_.isEqual
_.isEqual(window.foo, window.bar)
_.isEqual(window.foo, window.bar)
Array.toString()
window.foo.toString() === window.bar.toString();
window.foo.toString() === window.bar.toString();