Run results for: Javascript Sort (numbers/strings)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Built-in Sort (numbers)

769/s

Built-in Sort (strings)

401/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Built-in Sort (numbers)	769 Ops/sec
Built-in Sort (strings)	401 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script>  
  function number_sort(ary) {
      return ary.sort(function(a, b) {
          return a - b;
      });
  }
  
  function string_sort(ary) {
      return ary.sort(function(a, b) {
          return a.localeCompare(b);
      });
  }

</script>

Script Preparation code:

var numbers = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
  numbers[i] = Math.round(Math.random() * 1000000);
}

var strings = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
  strings[i] = Math.round(Math.random() * 1000000).toString();
}

Tests:

Built-in Sort (numbers)
number_sort(numbers.slice(0));
Built-in Sort (strings)
string_sort(strings.slice(0));

Run results for: Javascript Sort (numbers/strings)

Port from jsperf(https://jsperf.com/sorting-algorithms/58)

Built-in Sort (numbers)

Built-in Sort (strings)