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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Browser: Firefox 128

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Date.now()

14.9M/s

new Date().getTime();

11.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	14,926,900 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	11,432,506 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: