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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0

Browser: Firefox 124

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Date.now()

12.0M/s

new Date().getTime();

7.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	11,989,627 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	7,627,854 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: