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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.4 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.4

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Date.now()

24.5M/s

new Date().getTime();

18.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	24,500,272 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	18,391,706 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: