Run results for: Date.now() vs new Date().getTime()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 114

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Date.now()

3.2M/s

new Date().getTime();

2.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	3,188,034 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	2,545,080 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: