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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Browser: Firefox 129

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Date.now()

12.3M/s

new Date().getTime();

9.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	12,331,845 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	9,684,383 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: