Run results for: Compare weeks via number or string

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:143.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/143.0

Browser: Firefox 143

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Sort via numbers	25980612.0 Ops/sec
Sort via double comparison	26016960.0 Ops/sec
Sort via string comparison	4416219.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var week1 = { year: 2024, week: 1 };
var week2 = { year: 2024, week: 3 };
var week3 = { year: 2025, week: 3 };

const weeks = [week3, week2, week1];

const sortWeeksViaNumbers = (w1, w2)=>(w1.year * 100 + w1.week) - (w2.year * 100 + w2.week)

const sortWeeksViaDoubleComparison = (w1, w2)=>{ 
  if (w1.year !== w2.year){ return w1.year - w2.year } 
  return w1.week - w2.week
}

const sortWeeksViaStrings = (w1, w2)=>{ 
  `${w1.year}-${w1.week.toString().padStart(2,0)}`.localeCompare(`${w2.year}-${w2.week.toString().padStart(2,0)}`)
}

Tests:

Sort via numbers
weeks.sort(sortWeeksViaNumbers)
Sort via double comparison
weeks.sort(sortWeeksViaDoubleComparison)
Sort via string comparison
weeks.sort(sortWeeksViaStrings)

Run results for: Compare weeks via number or string

Test the speed of comparing number vs comparing with double comparison vs comparing strings in js

Sort via numbers

Sort via double comparison

Sort via string comparison