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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 129

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Date.now()

7.5M/s

new Date().getTime();

6.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	7,526,966 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	6,847,464 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: