Run results for: Intl.Collator.compare() vs localeCompare()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Intl.Collator.compare()

5.6M/s

localeCompare()

141K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Intl.Collator.compare()	5,607,730 Ops/sec
localeCompare()	141,288 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = "FOO BAR";
var b = "foo bar";

var options = {
  sensitivity: 'base'
};

var collator = new Intl.Collator(undefined, options);

Tests: