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

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

Date.now()

3.0M/s

new Date().valueOf()

2.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	2,959,890 Ops/sec
new Date().valueOf()	2,575,824 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

let timestamp = null

Tests: