Run results for: Date.now 1000ms vs setTimeout 1000ms

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setTimeout

756K/s

Date.now for

1/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setTimeout	756,080 Ops/sec
Date.now for	1 Ops/sec

Tests:

Date.now for
const lastCall = Date.now(); let now = Date.now(); while(now - lastCall < 1000) { now = Date.now() }
setTimeout
const handle = setTimeout(() => { this.shouldRestart = true; }, 1000);