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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.3.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Intl.Collator.compare()

3.1M/s

localeCompare()

77K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Intl.Collator.compare()	3,055,541 Ops/sec
localeCompare()	77,068 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:

localeCompare()
a.localeCompare(b, undefined, options) === 0
Intl.Collator.compare()
collator.compare(a, b) === 0