Run results for: new Date vs date.setTime

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

date.setTime

5.4M/s

new Date

2.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ date.setTime	5,368,048 Ops/sec
new Date	2,695,796 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var i = 1709062596918;
var prevDate = new Date();

Tests: