Run results for: orderBy vs Native sort native dynamic compare

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_2_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.82 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Mac OS X 11.2.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
lodash orderBy	17.1 Ops/sec
Custom NativeSort	3.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.15/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

function getRandomInt(max) {
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * Math.floor(max));
}

var arr = [];
for(var i = 0; i < 100000; i++){
  arr.push({value:getRandomInt(100)});
}

Tests:

lodash orderBy
_.orderBy(arr,"value","asc");
Custom NativeSort
function get(selector, obj) { return selector.split('.').reduce((acc, part) => { // O(n2) when querying for an array (e.g. items[0].name) // Likely, the object depth will be reasonable enough that performance is not a concern return acc[part]; }, obj); } function compareValues(key, order) { return (a, b) => { if (!key) { return 0; } const leftValue = get(key, a); const rightValue = get(key, b); const left = (typeof leftValue === 'string') ? leftValue.toUpperCase() : leftValue; const right = (typeof rightValue === 'string') ? rightValue.toUpperCase() : rightValue; const comparison = (left > right) ? 1 : -1; return ( (order === 'desc') ? (comparison * -1) : comparison ); }; } arr.concat().sort(compareValues("value"))

Run results for: orderBy vs Native sort native dynamic compare

compare lodash order by vs a custom native sort function

lodash orderBy

Custom NativeSort