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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 13

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
_.isEqual	282140.8 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	150049.2 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 = [
  {
    test: 1,
    test2: {
      cate: 4,
      jake: [
        1,
        2,
        'abc',
        {
          cate: 4,
          jake: [1, 2, 'abc']
        }
      ]
    },
    cate: 4,
    jake: [1, 2, 'abc']
  },
  'cat',
  'dog',
  'bird'
];
window.bar = [
  {
    test: 1,
    test2: {
      cate: 4,
      jake: [
        1,
        2,
        'abc',
        {
          cate: 4,
          jake: [1, 2, 'abc']
        }
      ]
    },
    cate: 4,
    jake: [1, 2, 'abc']
  },
  'cat',
  'dog',
  'bird'
];

Tests:

_.isEqual
_.isEqual(window.foo, window.bar)
JSON.stringify
getJsonHash(window.foo) === getJsonHash(window.bar); function getJsonHash(object) { return JSON.stringify(object).split('').reduce(reduce, 0); function reduce(prevHash, currVal) { return (((prevHash << 5) - prevHash) + currVal.charCodeAt(0)) | 0; } }

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

Test on isEqual performance

_.isEqual

JSON.stringify