Benchmark: Intl.Collator.compare('en', {numeric: true}) vs agGridComparator()

Script Preparation code:

var a = "FOO BAR";
var b = "foo bar";

var options = {
  numeric: true
};

var collator = new Intl.Collator('en', options);

function agGridComparator(valueA, valueB, accentedCompare = false) {
  const valueAMissing = valueA == null;
  const valueBMissing = valueB == null;

  // this is for aggregations sum and avg, where the result can be a number that is wrapped.
  // if we didn't do this, then the toString() value would be used, which would result in
  // the strings getting used instead of the numbers.
  if (valueA && valueA.toNumber) {
    valueA = valueA.toNumber();
  }

  if (valueB && valueB.toNumber) {
    valueB = valueB.toNumber();
  }

  if (valueAMissing && valueBMissing) {
    return 0;
  }

  if (valueAMissing) {
    return -1;
  }

  if (valueBMissing) {
    return 1;
  }

  function doQuickCompare(a, b) {
    return (a > b ? 1 : (a < b ? -1 : 0));
  }

  if (typeof valueA !== 'string') {
    return doQuickCompare(valueA, valueB);
  }

  if (!accentedCompare) {
    return doQuickCompare(valueA, valueB);
  }

  try {
    // using local compare also allows chinese comparisons
    return valueA.localeCompare(valueB);
  } catch (e) {
    // if something wrong with localeCompare, eg not supported
    // by browser, then just continue with the quick one
    return doQuickCompare(valueA, valueB);
  }
}

Tests:

agGridComparator()
agGridComparator(a,b) === 0
Intl.Collator.compare()
collator.compare(a, b) === 0

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
agGridComparator()
Intl.Collator.compare()

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 14 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 124 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
agGridComparator()	9591932.0 Ops/sec
Intl.Collator.compare()	5819347.0 Ops/sec

Intl.Collator.compare('en', {numeric: true}) vs agGridComparator() (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: agGridComparator() vs Intl.Collator.compare()

Created: 14 days ago by: Guest

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agGridComparator()

Intl.Collator.compare()

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A