Run results for: Intl.Collator.compare('en', {numeric: true}) vs localeCompare('en', {numeric: true})

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Intl.Collator.compare()

3.5M/s

localeCompare()

162K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Intl.Collator.compare()	3,472,982 Ops/sec
localeCompare()	161,770 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = "FOO BAR";
var b = "foo bar";

var options = {
  numeric: true
};

var collator = new Intl.Collator('en', options);

Tests: