Run results for: localCompare vs Intl.Collator

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Locale compare approach

7.0M/s

Collator approach

3.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Locale compare approach	7,035,413 Ops/sec
Collator approach	3,060,347 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = "FOO BAR";
var b = "foo bar";

var collator = new Intl.Collator();

Tests: