Run results for: Intl.Collator.compare('en', {numeric: true}) vs localeCompare('en', {numeric: true})

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 124

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
localeCompare()	194871.1 Ops/sec
Intl.Collator.compare()	3095872.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = "FOO BAR";
var b = "foo bar";

var options = {
  numeric: true
};

var collator = new Intl.Collator('en', options);

Tests: