Run results for: Intl.Collator.compare() 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 Edg/135.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Intl.Collator.compare()

19.9M/s

localeCompare()

328K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Intl.Collator.compare()	19,866,114 Ops/sec
localeCompare()	327,868 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: