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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setTimeout

438K/s

Date.now for

1/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setTimeout	438,015 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);