Run results for: Array.sort vs Math.min+Math.max

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.101 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 53

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 8 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Array.sort	1782891.1 Ops/sec
Math min and max	822098.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var v1 = 12345678.12345;
var v2 = 23456789.01234;

var arr = [v2, v1]

​x
 
var v1 = 12345678.12345;var v2 = 23456789.01234;​var arr = [v2, v1]

Tests:

Array.sort
var a = arr.sort(); var min = a[0]; var max = a[1];
var a = arr.sort();
var min = a[0];
var max = a[1];
Math min and max
var min = Math.min(v2, v1); var max = Math.max(v2, v1);
var min = Math.min(v2, v1);
var max = Math.max(v2, v1);