Run results for: lodash sorting vs JS sort

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 123

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

sort object with native sort, descending

6.8M/s

sort object with native sort, ascending

4.1M/s

sort object with orderBy, descending

1.5M/s

sort object with sortBy, ascending

1.5M/s

sort object with orderBy, ascending

1.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ sort object with native sort, descending	6,836,786 Ops/sec
sort object with native sort, ascending	4,078,734 Ops/sec
sort object with orderBy, descending	1,538,872 Ops/sec
sort object with sortBy, ascending	1,450,932 Ops/sec
sort object with orderBy, ascending	1,444,585 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:

var users = [
      { user: 'fred', age: 48 },
      { user: 'barney', age: 36 },
      { user: 'fred', age: 40 },
      { user: 'barney', age: 34 },
      { user: 'frank', age: 12 },
      { user: 'barry', age: 38 },
      { user: 'ted', age: 19 },
      { user: 'marshall', age: 42 }
    ];

Tests:

sort object with orderBy, ascending
_.orderBy(users, 'age', 'asc');
sort object with sortBy, ascending
_.sortBy(users, 'age');
sort object with native sort, ascending
[...users].sort((a, b) => a.age - b.age);
sort object with orderBy, descending
_.orderBy(users, 'age', 'desc');
sort object with native sort, descending
users.sort((a, b) => b.age - a.age);