Run results for: Intl.Collator.compare() vs Intl.Collator.compare({numeric: true})

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 118

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Numeric: false	2547017.8 Ops/sec
Numeric: true	4332442.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = "FOO BAR";
var b = "foo bar";

var nonNumeric = new Intl.Collator(undefined, {
  sensitivity: 'base',
  numeric: false,
});
var numeric = new Intl.Collator(undefined, {
  sensitivity: 'base',
  numeric: true,
});

Tests:

Numeric: false
nonNumeric.compare(a, b) === 0
Numeric: true
numeric.compare(a, b) === 0

Run results for: Intl.Collator.compare() vs Intl.Collator.compare({numeric: true})

Numeric: false

Numeric: true