Run results for: iso date string sort comparison

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

localcompare

471K/s

sort

395K/s

manual compare

315K/s

date convert to timestamp + sort (timezone safe)

100K/s

date convert to date + sort a-b (timezone safe)

56K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ localcompare	470,502 Ops/sec
sort	394,784 Ops/sec
manual compare	314,725 Ops/sec
date convert to timestamp + sort (timezone safe)	100,344 Ops/sec
date convert to date + sort a-b (timezone safe)	56,486 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var dates = [
  '2021-11-22T11:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-11-22T07:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-11-24T12:30:00.000Z',
  '2021-11-24T07:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-11-24T07:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-11-26T07:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-11-26T12:30:00.000Z',
  '2021-11-26T12:30:00.000Z',
  '2021-11-27T11:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-11-27T12:30:00.000Z',
  '2021-09-22T11:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-09-22T07:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-09-24T12:30:00.000Z',
  '2021-09-24T07:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-09-24T07:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-09-26T07:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-05-26T12:30:00.000Z',
  '2021-12-26T12:30:00.000Z',
  '2021-09-27T11:00:00.000Z',
  '2021-09-27T12:30:00.000Z',
];

Tests: