Run results for: Max.max & Math.min vs sort

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

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

sort

17.4M/s

max/min

3.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ sort	17,361,974 Ops/sec
max/min	3,353,224 Ops/sec

Tests:

sort
const larger = 10; const smaller = 5; [larger, smaller].sort((a,b) => b - a);
max/min
const larger = 10; const smaller = 5; [Math.max([smaller, larger]), Math.min([smaller, larger])];

Run results for: Max.max & Math.min vs sort

Checking to see if Math.max/min on a tuple is faster then tuple.sort

sort

max/min