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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 123

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Date.now()

6.2M/s

new Date().getTime();

4.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	6,237,636 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	4,062,275 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: