Run results for: localeCompare vs collator.compare vs new Intl.Collator().compare

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.167 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 102

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
localeCompare	155315.2 Ops/sec
Intl.Collator().compare	141697.1 Ops/sec
collator.compare	1624416.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = "z11";
var b = "z1";
var expectedOrder = 1;

var options = {
    sensitivity: 'base',
    numeric: true,
};

var collator = new Intl.Collator(undefined, options);

Tests:

localeCompare
a.localeCompare(b, undefined, options) === expectedOrder
Intl.Collator().compare
new Intl.Collator(undefined, options).compare(a, b) === expectedOrder
collator.compare
collator.compare(a, b) === expectedOrder

Run results for: localeCompare vs collator.compare vs new Intl.Collator().compare

localeCompare is an abstraction of Intl.Collator, thus they can accept the same options.

localeCompare

Intl.Collator().compare

collator.compare