Run results for: sort vs loop to find max

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
sort	373707.6 Ops/sec
loop	443860.3 Ops/sec

Tests:

sort
const arr = [12, 3, 500, 40, 66, 22, 123123, 1, 2, -123, 3333] arr.sort((a, b) => a == b ? 0 : a > b ? -1 : 1) const max = arr[0] console.log(max)
loop
const arr = [12, 3, 500, 40, 66, 22, 123123, 1, 2, -123, 3333] let max = 0 for (const num of arr) { if (num > max) max = num } console.log(max)