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Run results for: lodash orderBy vs Array.sort on single key

Sort and array of objects by 2 properties : - text: descending - id: ascending

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.64 Safari/537.36
Chrome 101
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
2 years ago
Test name Executions per second
_.orderBy 25481.5 Ops/sec
Array.sort 143906.9 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>
Script Preparation code:
 
var generateText = function(){
  return  Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 4);
}
var arr = []
​
for(i=0; i<100; i++){
    const obj = {}
    obj.id = i;
    obj.text = generateText()
    arr.push(obj)
}
Tests:

  • _.orderBy

     
    _.orderBy(arr, ['text'], ['desc'])

  • Array.sort

     
    arr.sort((a, b) => a.text - b.text)