Run results for: Intl.Collator('en').compare vs localeCompare

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 127

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

localeCompare

210/s

Intl.Collator

87/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ localeCompare	210 Ops/sec
Intl.Collator	87 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const minCodePoint = 'a'.charCodeAt(0);
const maxCodePoint = 'z'.charCodeAt(0);
const randomLetter = () => String.fromCharCode(Math.floor(Math.random() * (maxCodePoint - minCodePoint) + minCodePoint));
const createWord = () => Array.from({length: 15}, randomLetter).join('');

var words = Array.from({length: 50000}, createWord);

Tests:

Intl.Collator
const collator = new Intl.Collator('en'); words.sort(collator.compare);
localeCompare
words.sort((a, b) => a.localeCompare(b))