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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 114

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
toLowerCase()	13919251.0 Ops/sec
localeCompare()	326108.3 Ops/sec
toLowerCase() FAIL	11940881.0 Ops/sec
localeCompare() FAIL	328761.8 Ops/sec
toLocaleLowerCase()	11506161.0 Ops/sec
toLocaleLowerCase() FAIL	11216581.0 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()