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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Date.now()

12.5M/s

new Date().getTime();

9.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	12,488,828 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	9,777,899 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: