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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

localecompare

4.6M/s

sensitivity

2.2M/s

lowercase

2.0M/s

localecompare sensitivity

40K/s

Intl.Collator

37K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ localecompare	4,621,347 Ops/sec
sensitivity	2,225,248 Ops/sec
lowercase	1,982,183 Ops/sec
localecompare sensitivity	39,672 Ops/sec
Intl.Collator	36,747 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = ['A', 'a', 'B', 'b', 'C', 'c', 'D', 'd'];

var options = {
  sensitivity: 'accent'
};

var collator1 = new Intl.Collator(undefined, options);
var collator2 = new Intl.Collator();

Tests:

lowercase
arr.sort((a,b) => collator2.compare(a.toLowerCase(), b.toLowerCase()))
sensitivity
arr.sort(collator1.compare)
Intl.Collator
arr.sort((a,b) => Intl.Collator().compare(a.toLowerCase(), b.toLowerCase()))
localecompare
arr.sort((a,b) => a.toLowerCase().localeCompare(b.toLowerCase()))
localecompare sensitivity
arr.sort((a,b) => a.localeCompare(b, undefined, options))