Run results for: Intl.Collator.compare vs localeCompare with numbers

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Intl.Collator	16.6 Ops/sec
localeCompare	0.6 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const minCodePoint = 'a'.charCodeAt(0);
const maxCodePoint = 'z'.charCodeAt(0);
const randomTextNumber = () => 'tst-' + Math.floor(Math.random() * (1000 - 1) + 1);

var words = Array.from({length: 50000}, randomTextNumber);

Tests:

Intl.Collator
const collator = new Intl.Collator(undefined, {numeric: true, sensitivity: 'base'}); words.sort(collator.compare);
localeCompare
words.sort((a, b) => a.localeCompare(b, undefined, {numeric: true, sensitivity: 'base'}))