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fast-string-compare - 3.0.0 | npmpackage.info

fast-string-compare

A (much) faster String.prototype.localeCompare

3.0.0

MIT

TypeScript

11.44 kB

2.5

Installations

npm install fast-string-compare

Developer Guide

BETA

Typescript

Yes

Module System

ESM

Min. Node Version

^14.13.1 || >=16.0.0

Node Version

18.13.0

NPM Version

8.19.3 Pull Requests

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0

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1

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Releases

v3.0.0

Updated on Feb 02, 2023

v2.0.0

Updated on Sep 13, 2021

v1.0.0

Updated on Apr 09, 2021

View All 3 releases

Languages

TypeScript

JavaScript

TypeScript (97.93%)

JavaScript (2.07%)

Developer

grantila

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MIT License

2 Stars

10 Commits

1 Watchers

1 Branches

1 Contributors

Updated on Feb 02, 2023

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Package Meta Information

Latest Version

3.0.0

Package Id

fast-string-compare@3.0.0

Unpacked Size

11.44 kB

Size

3.88 kB

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NPM Version

8.19.3

Node Version

18.13.0

Published on

Feb 02, 2023

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Dev Dependencies

@babel/preset-env @babel/preset-typescript @types/benchmark @types/bintrees @types/jest @types/node benchmark bintrees cz-conventional-changelog jest rimraf ts-node typescript

fast-string-compare

This is a (much) faster version of String.prototype.localeCompare() to compare two strings, useful for Array.prototype.sort() or for ordering strings in trees.

This is not equivalent to localeCompare, and does not return the same result. localeCompare respects the current locale (language), and orders e.g. both 'a' and 'A' before 'b'. See Intl.Collator.

The function exported by this package - compare - returns a pure binary comparison, and is therefore just as stable and useful if some deterministic order is needed, but not necessarily a human friendly order.

Versions

Since v2 this is a pure ESM package, and requires Node.js >=12.20. It cannot be used from CommonJS.
Since v3 requires Node.js >= 14.13.1.

API

1import { compare } from 'fast-string-compare'
2
3[ 'c', 'a', 'B' ].sort( compare ); // 'B', 'a', 'c'

Benchmark

Running this under a system heavily slowing down user code (e.g. Jest, with or without coverage), it will run much slower than localeCompare(). This is misleading, and not the case when not running in a test environment.

Look at the benchmark code and run it using yarn benchmark.

In these benchmarks, the fast compare is ~2-3x faster than localeCompare, but a large part of the benchmark is logic around the actual comparison, so the difference is likely larger for the pure comparison.

Benchmark results (the exported compare function is the 'fast' method):

❯ yarn -s benchmark
Benchmarking raw comparison algorithms...

Running test of: raw compare
fast           x 12,190,097 ops/sec ±0.50% (91 runs sampled)
fast double    x 11,263,299 ops/sec ±0.44% (91 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 7,343,412 ops/sec ±0.62% (91 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 11,552,827 ops/sec ±0.67% (87 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 6,341,841 ops/sec ±1.12% (86 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 5,599,850 ops/sec ±1.01% (90 runs sampled)

Benchmarking comparison algorithms for sort...

Running test of: english words
fast           x 2.15 ops/sec ±3.61% (10 runs sampled)
fast double    x 2.04 ops/sec ±5.87% (10 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 1.36 ops/sec ±2.53% (8 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 1.74 ops/sec ±2.18% (9 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 0.87 ops/sec ±0.82% (7 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 0.78 ops/sec ±4.24% (6 runs sampled)

Running test of: english words reversed
fast           x 2.12 ops/sec ±5.38% (10 runs sampled)
fast double    x 2.11 ops/sec ±1.76% (10 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 1.39 ops/sec ±3.90% (8 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 1.79 ops/sec ±1.79% (9 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 0.89 ops/sec ±0.28% (7 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 0.79 ops/sec ±3.82% (7 runs sampled)

Running test of: english words randomized
fast           x 2.12 ops/sec ±7.95% (10 runs sampled)
fast double    x 2.13 ops/sec ±1.59% (10 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 1.42 ops/sec ±0.55% (8 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 1.81 ops/sec ±0.53% (9 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 0.88 ops/sec ±3.13% (7 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 0.80 ops/sec ±2.20% (7 runs sampled)

Running test of: data type words
fast           x 10,857 ops/sec ±0.74% (92 runs sampled)
fast double    x 9,770 ops/sec ±0.76% (93 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 6,135 ops/sec ±0.44% (94 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 8,212 ops/sec ±0.89% (93 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 3,778 ops/sec ±0.47% (94 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 3,434 ops/sec ±0.87% (92 runs sampled)

Running test of: data type words reversed
fast           x 10,731 ops/sec ±1.09% (94 runs sampled)
fast double    x 9,643 ops/sec ±0.72% (92 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 6,109 ops/sec ±0.46% (92 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 8,158 ops/sec ±1.34% (93 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 3,800 ops/sec ±0.47% (93 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 3,438 ops/sec ±0.41% (92 runs sampled)

Running test of: data type words randomized
fast           x 10,776 ops/sec ±1.26% (92 runs sampled)
fast double    x 9,789 ops/sec ±0.38% (93 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 6,177 ops/sec ±0.32% (96 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 8,202 ops/sec ±1.04% (93 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 3,786 ops/sec ±0.39% (93 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 3,431 ops/sec ±0.50% (94 runs sampled)

Benchmarking comparison algorithms for trees...

Running test of: english words
fast           x 0.40 ops/sec ±2.35% (5 runs sampled)
fast double    x 0.36 ops/sec ±1.33% (5 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 0.28 ops/sec ±1.56% (5 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 0.32 ops/sec ±2.45% (5 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 0.24 ops/sec ±4.09% (5 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 0.22 ops/sec ±0.87% (5 runs sampled)

Running test of: english words reversed
fast           x 0.38 ops/sec ±1.87% (5 runs sampled)
fast double    x 0.36 ops/sec ±2.17% (5 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 0.28 ops/sec ±5.81% (5 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 0.32 ops/sec ±1.70% (5 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 0.24 ops/sec ±0.98% (5 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 0.22 ops/sec ±0.86% (5 runs sampled)

Running test of: english words randomized
fast           x 0.38 ops/sec ±1.03% (5 runs sampled)
fast double    x 0.36 ops/sec ±1.42% (5 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 0.28 ops/sec ±1.35% (5 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 0.33 ops/sec ±4.34% (5 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 0.24 ops/sec ±0.79% (5 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 0.22 ops/sec ±1.07% (5 runs sampled)

Running test of: data type words
fast           x 2,688 ops/sec ±0.69% (91 runs sampled)
fast double    x 2,386 ops/sec ±0.77% (95 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 1,653 ops/sec ±0.44% (95 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 1,898 ops/sec ±0.52% (93 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 1,259 ops/sec ±0.38% (93 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 1,143 ops/sec ±0.48% (94 runs sampled)

Running test of: data type words reversed
fast           x 2,728 ops/sec ±0.84% (92 runs sampled)
fast double    x 2,389 ops/sec ±0.45% (94 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 1,654 ops/sec ±0.38% (94 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 1,913 ops/sec ±0.34% (95 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 1,272 ops/sec ±0.39% (94 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 1,143 ops/sec ±0.54% (93 runs sampled)

Running test of: data type words randomized
fast           x 2,723 ops/sec ±0.73% (94 runs sampled)
fast double    x 2,399 ops/sec ±0.39% (95 runs sampled)
fast and slice x 1,639 ops/sec ±0.56% (93 runs sampled)
fast codepoint x 1,919 ops/sec ±0.44% (93 runs sampled)
Intl.Collator  x 1,272 ops/sec ±0.38% (93 runs sampled)
localeCompare  x 1,140 ops/sec ±0.89% (91 runs sampled)

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