Run results for: Javascript: Case insensitive string comparison performance 2 - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 113

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
toLowerCase()	7312500.0 Ops/sec
localeCompare()	164138.6 Ops/sec
toLowerCase() FAIL	6628087.0 Ops/sec
localeCompare() FAIL	164358.2 Ops/sec
toLocaleLowerCase()	6524900.5 Ops/sec
toLocaleLowerCase() FAIL	6193641.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = "John Doe"
var b = "john doe"
var c = "john smith"
var o = {
    sensitivity: 'base'
}

Tests:

toLowerCase()
a.toLowerCase() === b.toLowerCase()
localeCompare()
a.localeCompare(b,undefined,o)
toLowerCase() FAIL
c.toLowerCase() === b.toLowerCase()
localeCompare() FAIL
c.localeCompare(b,undefined,o)
toLocaleLowerCase()
a.toLocaleLowerCase() === b.toLocaleLowerCase()
toLocaleLowerCase() FAIL
c.toLocaleLowerCase() === b.toLocaleLowerCase()