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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox 131

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Date.now()

12.0M/s

new Date().getTime();

6.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	11,997,772 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	6,686,624 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: