Run results for: Date.parse vs new Date

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.3.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Date.parse

7.6M/s

new Date

6.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.parse	7,591,806 Ops/sec
new Date	6,450,024 Ops/sec

Tests:

new Date
new Date('01/01/2001');
Date.parse
Date.parse('01/01/2001');