Run results for: Array.sort vs Math.min+Math.max with strings

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 104

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Array.sort	837688.4 Ops/sec
Math min and max	166696.9 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = ["113696", "96926", "271971", "271448", "254468", "227795", "265455", "262975", "147950", "266692", "207927", "244419", "160650", "284230", "298256", "248442", "257318", "126492", "256399", "162274", "148671", "199474", "274356", "319099", "301962", "162204", "219445", "298792", "244477", "300446", "238482", "174462", "263144", "214108", "283694", "18835", "345125", "346905", "84291", "26654", "710802520509440", "838413506314240", "819421436706816", "867793164042240", "796010735307776", "871917035555840", "842318666894336", "871805837216768", "896607951096832", "557103826439168", "679644315356160", "603087976631296"]

Tests:

Array.sort
var a = arr.sort(); var min = a[0]; var max = a[1];
Math min and max
var min = Math.min(...arr); var max = Math.max(...arr);

Run results for: Array.sort vs Math.min+Math.max with strings

Array.sort

Math min and max