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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 129

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Intl.Collator.compare()

4.1M/s

localeCompare()

170K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Intl.Collator.compare()	4,123,483 Ops/sec
localeCompare()	169,508 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = "FOO BAR";
var b = "foo bar";

var options = {
  sensitivity: 'base'
};

var collator = new Intl.Collator(undefined, options);

Tests: