<p>I want to compare 2 arrays of objects in JavaScript code.  The objects have 8 total properties, but each object will not have a value for each, and the arrays are never going to be any larger than 8 items each, so maybe the brute force method of traversing each and then looking at the values of the 8 properties is the easiest way to do what I want to do, but before implementing, I wanted to see if anyone had a more elegant solution. Any thoughts?</p>

EDIT: You cannot overload operators in current, common browser-based implementations of JavaScript interpreters.
To answer the original question, one way you could do this, and mind you, this is a bit of a hack, simply
serialize the two arrays to JSON
and then compare the two JSON strings. That would simply tell you if the arrays are different, obviously you could do this to
each
of the objects within the arrays as well to see which ones were different.
Another option is to use a library which has some nice facilities for comparing objects - I use and recommend
MochiKit
.
EDIT:
The answer kamens gave
deserves consideration as well, since a single function to compare two given objects would be much smaller than any library to do what I suggest (although my suggestion would certainly work well enough).
Here is a naïve implemenation that may do just enough for you - be aware that there are potential problems with this implementation:
```
```
function objectsAreSame(x, y) {
   var objectsAreSame = true;
   for(var propertyName in x) {
      if(x[propertyName] !== y[propertyName]) {
         objectsAreSame = false;
         break;
      }
   }
   return objectsAreSame;
}
```
```
The assumption is that both objects have the same exact list of properties.
Oh, and it is probably obvious that, for better or worse, I belong to the only-one-return-point camp. :)