Run results for: lodash orderBy vs Array.sort 50 000 elements

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 133

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Array.sort

601/s

_.orderBy

25/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Array.sort	601 Ops/sec
_.orderBy	25 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var generateText = function(){
  return  Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 4);
}
var arr = []

for(i=0; i<50000; i++){
	const obj = {}
    obj.id = i;
  	obj.text = generateText()
    arr.push(obj)
}

Tests:

_.orderBy
_.orderBy(arr, ['text', 'id'], ['desc', 'asc'])
Array.sort
arr.sort((a, b) => (a.text < b.text) ? 1 : (a.text === b.text) ? ((a.id > b.id) ? 1 : -1) : -1 )

Run results for: lodash orderBy vs Array.sort 50 000 elements

Sort and array of objects by 2 properties : - text: descending - id: ascending

_.orderBy

Array.sort