Benchmark: DateTimeFormat vs toLocaleDateString

Script Preparation code:

const formatter = Intl.DateTimeFormat(["en"], {
    month: 'short',
    day: 'numeric',
  })

Tests:

formatter
formatter.format(new Date());
toLocaleDateString
new Date().toLocaleDateString("en", { month: 'short', day: 'numeric' })

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
formatter
toLocaleDateString

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 6 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 141 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

Test name	Executions per second
formatter	2228548.8 Ops/sec
toLocaleDateString	51510.0 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

DateTimeFormat vs toLocaleDateString (version: 0)