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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/95.0.0.0

Browser: Opera 95

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

new Date().getTime();

786K/s

Date.now()

511K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ new Date().getTime();	785,998 Ops/sec
Date.now()	511,479 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: