Run results for: Date.now vs setTimeout

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Date.now

12.7M/s

setTimeout

374K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now	12,747,565 Ops/sec
setTimeout	374,194 Ops/sec

Tests:

Date.now
const timestamp = Date.now()
setTimeout
const handle = setTimeout(() => { this.shouldRestart = true; }, 1000 * 60 * 5);