Run results for: Javascript: Case insensitive string comparison performance

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 103

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

toLowerCase()

2.3M/s

toLowerCase() FAIL

1.9M/s

localeCompare()

69K/s

localeCompare() FAIL

69K/s

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Script Preparation code:

var a = "John Doe"
var b = "john doe"
var c = "john smith"
var o = {
    sensitivity: 'base'
}

Tests: