Run results for: Array.sort vs Math.min+Math.max

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.0.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Array.sort

10.9M/s

Math min and max

4.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Array.sort	10,896,734 Ops/sec
Math min and max	4,147,024 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var v1 = 12345678.12345;
var v2 = 23456789.01234;

var arr = [v2, v1]

Tests:

Array.sort
var a = arr.sort(); var min = a[0]; var max = a[1];
Math min and max
var min = Math.min(v2, v1); var max = Math.max(v2, v1);