Run results for: vanilla vs lo-dash vs underscore sortBy()

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

Vanilla sort()

3.3M/s

Underscore sortBy()

1.2M/s

Lo-Dash sortBy()

1.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Vanilla sort()	3,291,262 Ops/sec
Underscore sortBy()	1,169,522 Ops/sec
Lo-Dash sortBy()	1,138,619 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.8.3/underscore-min.js'></script>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

let fruits = [
  {name:"mango", amount: 1},
  {name:"apple", amount: 4},
  {name:"banana", amount: 2},
  {name:"pineapple", amount: 2},
  {name:"apple", amount: 2}
]

const sortBy = (key) => {
  return (a, b) => (a[key] > b[key]) ? 1 : ((b[key] > a[key]) ? -1 : 0);
};

fruits.sort(sortBy("name"));

Tests:

Lo-Dash sortBy()
let fruits = [ {name:"mango", amount: 1}, {name:"apple", amount: 4}, {name:"banana", amount: 2}, {name:"pineapple", amount: 2}, {name:"apple", amount: 2} ] _.sortBy(fruits, 'name')
Underscore sortBy()
let fruits = [ {name:"mango", amount: 1}, {name:"apple", amount: 4}, {name:"banana", amount: 2}, {name:"pineapple", amount: 2}, {name:"apple", amount: 2} ] _.sortBy(fruits, 'name')
Vanilla sort()
let fruits = [ {name:"mango", amount: 1}, {name:"apple", amount: 4}, {name:"banana", amount: 2}, {name:"pineapple", amount: 2}, {name:"apple", amount: 2} ] const sortBy = (key) => { return (a, b) => (a[key] > b[key]) ? 1 : ((b[key] > a[key]) ? -1 : 0); }; fruits.sort(sortBy("name"));