Run results for: Lodash sort vs array.prototype.sort vs radix

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; CLT-L29) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.181 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 88

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
_.sortBy	0.8 Ops/sec
array.prototype.sort	5.3 Ops/sec
radix	0.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

function getRandomInt(max) {
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * Math.floor(max));
}

var extractDigit = function( a, bitMask, shiftRightAmount ) {
    var digit = (a & bitMask) >>> shiftRightAmount; // extract the digit we are sorting based on
    return digit;
}
// June 2017 Victor J. Duvanenko High Performance LSD Radix Sort for arrays of unsigned integers
function radixSortLSD(_input_array) {
    var numberOfBins = 256;
    var Log2ofPowerOfTwoRadix = 8;
    var _output_array = new Array(_input_array.length);
    var count = new Array(numberOfBins);
    var _output_array_has_result = false;

    var bitMask = 255;
    var shiftRightAmount = 0;

    var startOfBin = new Array( numberOfBins );
    var endOfBin   = new Array( numberOfBins );

    while( bitMask != 0 ) // end processing digits when all the mask bits have been processed and shifted out, leaving no bits set in the bitMask
    {
        for (var i = 0; i < numberOfBins; i++ )
            count[ i ] = 0;
        for (var _current = 0; _current < _input_array.length; _current++ ) // Scan the array and count the number of times each digit value appears - i.e. size of each bin
            count[ extractDigit( _input_array[ _current ], bitMask, shiftRightAmount ) ]++;
 
        startOfBin[ 0 ] = endOfBin[ 0 ] = 0;
        for( var i = 1; i < numberOfBins; i++ )
            startOfBin[ i ] = endOfBin[ i ] = startOfBin[ i - 1 ] + count[ i - 1 ];
        for ( var _current = 0; _current < _input_array.length; _current++ )
            _output_array[ endOfBin[ extractDigit( _input_array[ _current ], bitMask, shiftRightAmount ) ]++ ] = _input_array[ _current ];
 
        bitMask <<= Log2ofPowerOfTwoRadix;
        shiftRightAmount += Log2ofPowerOfTwoRadix;
        _output_array_has_result = !_output_array_has_result;
 
        var tmp = _input_array, _input_array = _output_array, _output_array = tmp; // swap input and output arrays
    }
    if ( _output_array_has_result )
        for ( var _current = 0; _current < _input_array.length; _current++ ) // copy from output array into the input array
            _input_array[ _current ] = _output_array[ _current ];
 
    return _input_array;
}

var arr = [];
for(var i = 0; i < 500000; i++){
  arr.push({value:getRandomInt(300)});
}

Tests:

_.sortBy
_.sortBy(arr,"value");
array.prototype.sort
arr.sort((a,b) => a.value - b.value);
radix
radixSortLSD(arr)

Run results for: Lodash sort vs array.prototype.sort vs radix

_.sortBy

array.prototype.sort

radix