Run results for: [js] localeCompare sort vs normal sort vs lodash orderBy vs sort comparator w/ lorem (n=57200) Copy Copy Copy

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
localeCompare	125122.0 Ops/sec
lodash order	20456.6 Ops/sec
sort comparator	33054.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

function shuffle(array) {
    var i = array.length,
        j = 0,
        temp;
    while (i--) {
        j = Math.floor(Math.random() * (i + 1));
        temp = array[i];
        array[i] = array[j];
        array[j] = temp;
    }
    return array;
}
var words = [
    "wh@}U;8(9%hID#E;y*FQ*\Gf=DQ]C",
    "w]=R4nO[Pqc,;c8GFgAu[m^$l.V",
    "kbxmGZUcij0_DJ,;PZ~=#vPJA*hHG",
    ":D2dqJ-h/F;vh?!=}4]pKk<Qz0L=z",
    "oB>.3IL2TFhMqUOp!MzVSoG0!4uw",
    "@Je$BH@ox,Wc])~.Ed]AS}Ox&AgiY",
    "rH@;R:}.ZaB0aKB\QR7\h\^8y$",
    "LtO+CzRVp\Mp;vm87f3)P+|MxNKh",
    "(a0?*16Wa1bt9{9g>M8~^Y)ZkLO19",
    "2n.[?5JghKW$}jh=;b6DbWiSe6l4;",
    "4NpZ-4uIA^!VmN+\t0wh95DG=VC0",
    "4#DiMlrOjL#cxGU!rWr<VM8iRYR70D",
    "5|O6Vq+%aE]rsVUYEuGceyoaD$v&#",
    "#\ISPh1ra&&>9/NKlr3.Ez<P^I4pY",
    "M!Ery#SkPM5^A/J|VcI6WL\>&i=K",
    "nBx5kFrOB7^Lo)1Bd5>4H5T2t(",
    "A{q+L|LKxb-mQte-C\gjne4dC?#O_",
    "I):fgN?r?p&g6j7-j,,WOX?G+0#w~b",
    "c3w3%/q#drU!^;EP2AP.0@;8o.AV}",
    "EMP)(T;DUUdt|(7|50KWafo};-IW",
    "q]\\N}Mzq{GbZQH!6t^J%-ZX1a2*dd",
    "a|u.t3nq@rk\|M+I,Z5i_7\%VH-kU",
    "Yzn&}SET6ocLsQj5P/L_M!WPbc~)-",
    "p&)]$l2S&/Nlfv(D|\dRUT(Zu/9#:",
    "VOIb^R;vw;rMYG84n7.&kcj+oBUJ.]",
    "I^:@O0un-IPTb*xcd##o\cYusqi^#;",
    "FT<woNY|hK|#{Xafm5v\=OX9yv|%aC",
    "-5l)]&z~bR2zjSGPBJaJ9xR=TC&5mE",
    "=.Eq1W>{0~Mbm/oJlZOr@bPS2T&KO",
    "q>BN^_SvJd>+b:]4s6i3)^GsaD{<s"
];
var words1 = [];
var n = [];
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) words.push(...words);
for (i = 0; i < words.length; i++) n.push(i);
var ranNums = shuffle(n);
for (i = 0; i < words.length; i++) words1.push(words[ranNums[i]]);
console.log('ORIGINAL', words1);

Tests:

localeCompare
words1.sort((a,b) => a.localeCompare(b));
lodash order
_.orderBy(words1,model => model,'asc');
sort comparator
words1.sort((a,b) => { if (a.toLowerCase() < b.toLowerCase()) { return -1; } if (a.toLowerCase() > b.toLowerCase()) { return 1; } return 0; });