Benchmark: string comparisons 4

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Tests:

a, b equality
a === b
a, b locale compare
a.localeCompare(b) === 0
a, c equality
a === c
a, c locale compare
a.localeCompare(c) === 0

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
a, b equality
a, b locale compare
a, c equality
a, c locale compare

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one month ago):

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I'll break down the provided benchmark definitions and explain what's being tested, the options compared, pros and cons of each approach, and other considerations.

**Benchmark Definition JSON**

The `Benchmark Definition` JSON contains three test cases:

1. `"a === b"`
2. `"a.localeCompare(b) === 0"`
3. `"a === c"`
4. `"a.localeCompare(c) === 0"`

These tests compare the equality of two variables, `a` and `b`, or `a` and `c`, using the following methods:

* Direct comparison (`===`)
* Locale-based comparison with `localeCompare()`

**Options Compared**

The options compared are:

1. Direct comparison (`===`) vs. locale-based comparison with `localeCompare()`
2. Comparison between two different variables, `a` and `b`, versus comparison between two different variables, `a` and `c`

**Pros and Cons of Each Approach**

1. **Direct Comparison (`===`)**:
	* Pros:
		+ Fast and efficient
		+ Simple to implement
	* Cons:
		+ May not account for cultural differences in string representation (e.g., accents, non-ASCII characters)
		+ May not handle Unicode normalization properly
2. **Locale-Based Comparison with `localeCompare()`**:
	* Pros:
		+ Accounts for cultural differences in string representation
		+ Handles Unicode normalization properly
	* Cons:
		+ Slower than direct comparison
		+ Requires a valid locale to be set

**Other Considerations**

* The use of `localeCompare()` ensures that the comparison is performed in a way that respects the user's locale and cultural preferences.
* The tests are designed to ensure that the browser performs the comparisons correctly, but they do not cover all possible edge cases or Unicode characters.

**Latest Benchmark Results**

The latest benchmark results show the number of executions per second for each test case on a Windows desktop with Chrome 123. The results suggest that:

1. `a === b` is executed at approximately 7255512.5 times per second
2. `a.localeCompare(b) === 0` is executed at approximately 7207308.0 times per second
3. `a === c` is executed at approximately 6757402.0 times per second
4. `a.localeCompare(c) === 0` is executed at approximately 7238683.5 times per second

These results indicate that the locale-based comparison with `localeCompare()` is slightly slower than direct comparison, but it provides more accurate and culturally relevant comparisons.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 7 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 123 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
a, b equality	7238683.5 Ops/sec
a, b locale compare	7207308.0 Ops/sec
a, c equality	7255512.5 Ops/sec
a, c locale compare	6757402.0 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

string comparisons 4 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: a, b equality vs a, b locale compare vs a, c equality vs a, c locale compare

Created: 7 months ago by: Guest

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a, b equality

a, b locale compare

a, c equality

a, c locale compare

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one month ago):