Run results for: .sort() vs Math.min / Math.max

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/106.0.0.0

Browser: Opera 106

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Math min and max

3.7M/s

Array.sort

3.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Math min and max	3,677,623 Ops/sec
Array.sort	3,008,409 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const arr = [2,35,67,3,7,58,433,13,23,1];

Tests:

Array.sort
const arr = [2,35,67,3,7,58,433,13,23,1]; const a = arr.sort(); const min = a[0]; const max = a[1];
Math min and max
const arr = [2,35,67,3,7,58,433,13,23,1]; const min = Math.min(...arr); const max = Math.max(...arr);