Benchmark: Moment Tests - MeasureThat.net

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/moment/moment/2.7.0/moment.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/moment/moment-timezone/0.2.2/builds/moment-timezone-with-data.js"></script></script>

Script Preparation code:

var dateObject = new Date('2016-11-03T12:00:00Z');
var timezone = 'Australia/Perth';
var format = 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss';

Tests:

Moment
var dateString = moment.utc(dateObject).format(); var date = moment.tz(dateString, format, timezone);
Offset
var newDateObject = new Date(dateObject.getTime() + (dateObject.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000)); var date = moment.tz(newDateObject, timezone);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Moment
Offset

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 125 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
Moment	84958.8 Ops/sec
Offset	347288.0 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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**Benchmark Definition**

The benchmark measures the performance of two different approaches for working with dates in JavaScript:

1. **Moment.js**: A popular JavaScript library for working with dates and times.
2. **Native JavaScript Date API**: The built-in JavaScript Date object, which can be used to manipulate dates without external libraries.

**Options Compared**

The benchmark compares two options for creating a date object and then formatting it using Moment.js:

1. **Moment.js**: Using the `moment` function from the Moment.js library to create a new date object.
2. **Offset Method**: Creating a new date object by adding the timezone offset in milliseconds to the original date object.

**Pros and Cons**

**Moment.js:**

Pros:

* Convenient and easy-to-use API
* Handles complex date calculations and formatting out of the box

Cons:

* Adds extra overhead due to the external library
* May not be suitable for extremely small-scale or performance-critical applications

**Offset Method:**

Pros:

* No additional overhead from an external library
* Can be more efficient for simple date manipulation tasks

Cons:

* Requires manual handling of timezone offset calculations, which can be error-prone and complex
* May require additional logic to handle different timezones and date formats

**Library Usage - Moment.js**

Moment.js is a popular JavaScript library for working with dates and times. It provides a convenient and easy-to-use API for formatting, parsing, and manipulating dates in various formats. The `moment` function creates a new date object, and the `tz` method allows you to set the timezone.

**Special JS Feature/Syntax - None**

There are no special JavaScript features or syntax used in this benchmark.

**Other Alternatives**

For measuring date manipulation performance, other alternatives include:

1. **Intl.DateTimeFormat**: A part of the ECMAScript Internationalization API, which provides a way to format dates and times using locale-specific formatting.
2. **Date-Fns**: Another popular JavaScript library for working with dates and times, offering a more concise and expressive API than Moment.js.

In summary, this benchmark measures the performance difference between two approaches for working with dates in JavaScript: using the Moment.js library versus the native Date API with an offset method. The results can help identify which approach is faster and more suitable for specific use cases.

Related benchmarks:

Moment Tests (version: 4)

Comparing performance of: Moment vs Offset

Created: 9 years ago by: Registered User

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Moment

Offset

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):