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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.0.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Date.now()

7.8M/s

new Date().getTime();

6.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	7,784,668 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	6,741,743 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: