Run results for: Javascript Sort (numbers/strings)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Built-in Sort (numbers)	951.3 Ops/sec
Built-in Sort (strings)	345.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script>  
  function number_sort(ary) {
      return ary.sort(function(a, b) {
          return a - b;
      });
  }
  
  function string_sort(ary) {
      return ary.sort(function(a, b) {
          return a.localeCompare(b);
      });
  }

</script>

Script Preparation code:

var numbers = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
  numbers[i] = Math.round(Math.random() * 1000000);
}

var strings = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
  strings[i] = Math.round(Math.random() * 1000000).toString();
}

Tests:

Built-in Sort (numbers)
number_sort(numbers.slice(0));
Built-in Sort (strings)
string_sort(strings.slice(0));

Run results for: Javascript Sort (numbers/strings)

Port from jsperf(https://jsperf.com/sorting-algorithms/58)

Built-in Sort (numbers)

Built-in Sort (strings)