Run results for: Sort with compare inside/outside with try catch

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
inside compare	13.5 Ops/sec
outside compare	29.4 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var filteredData = Array.from({length: 1000000}, () => (Math.floor(Math.random() * 100000) === 4) ? null : (Math.random() + 1).toString(36).substring(7));
var sortOrder = 'DESC';

Tests:

inside compare
filteredData.sort((a, b) => { try{ if (sortOrder === 'DESC') { return b.localeCompare(a); } return a.localeCompare(b); } catch (e) { console.log('error for a: ', a, 'and b: ', b) return 0 } });
outside compare
filteredData.sort( sortOrder === 'DESC' ? (a, b) => { try{ return b.localeCompare(a) } catch(e) { console.log('error for a: ', a, 'and b: ', b) return 0 } } : (b, a) => { try { return b.localeCompare(a) } catch(e) { console.log('error for a: ', a, 'and b: ', b) return 0 } } );

Run results for: Sort with compare inside/outside with try catch

test

inside compare

outside compare