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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/120 Version/11.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 11

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.5

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Date.now()

3.6M/s

new Date().getTime();

3.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	3,597,620 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	3,548,934 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: