Run results for: Array vs Float64Array performance

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Float64Array.prototype.sort

498/s

Array.prototype.sort

63/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Float64Array.prototype.sort	498 Ops/sec
Array.prototype.sort	63 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const elementCount = 1_000_000;
const array = new Array(elementCount);
const f64array = new Float64Array(elementCount);
for (let i = 0; i < elementCount; i++) {
  const value = Math.random();
  array[i] = value;
  f64array[i] = value;
}
const comparator = (a, b) => a - b;

Tests:

Array.prototype.sort
array.sort(comparator);
Float64Array.prototype.sort
f64array.sort();