Run results for: Intl.Collator.compare() vs localeCompare()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Browser: Firefox 135

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Intl.Collator.compare()

8.7M/s

localeCompare()

279K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Intl.Collator.compare()	8,719,778 Ops/sec
localeCompare()	278,542 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = "FOO BAR";
var b = "foo bar";

var options = {
  sensitivity: 'base'
};

var collator = new Intl.Collator(undefined, options);

Tests: