Run results for: Date.now vs setTimeout

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 136

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Date.now

13.5M/s

setTimeout

362K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now	13,464,134 Ops/sec
setTimeout	361,694 Ops/sec

Tests:

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