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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 104

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
isEmpty empty array	2518828.0 Ops/sec
length empty array	6033608.0 Ops/sec
isEmpty array of strings	2607613.2 Ops/sec
length array of strings	5896265.5 Ops/sec
isEmpty array of objects	2482346.5 Ops/sec
length array of objects	5862164.5 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