Benchmarks of natural sorting in Ruby.

sort_benchmark.rb

require 'benchmark'
require 'natural_sort'
require 'naturally'
require 'natcmp'
require './lib/sort_authority'
require './lib/sort_authority/ext/enumerable'
require './sensible_sort'

ary = ['x 1'] * 100_000

Benchmark.bm do |bm|
  bm.report('sort           ') { ary.sort }
  bm.report('strnatcmp.c    ') { ary.natural_sort }
  bm.report('naturalsort gem') { NaturalSort::naturalsort(ary) }
  bm.report('naturally gem  ') { Naturally.sort(ary) }
  bm.report('natcmp gem     ') { ary.sort {|a,b| Natcmp.natcmp(a, b) } }
  bm.report('sensible_sort  ') { ary.sensible_sort }
end

#                  user     system      total        real
# sort             0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.001758)
# strnatcmp.c      0.030000   0.000000   0.030000 (  0.029083)
# naturalsort gem  0.060000   0.000000   0.060000 (  0.061879)
# naturally gem    0.990000   0.020000   1.010000 (  1.009634)
# natcmp gem       1.140000   0.010000   1.150000 (  1.141950)
# sensible_sort    2.280000   0.000000   2.280000 (  2.286274)