Run results for: Date.now vs setTimeout

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 136

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Date.now

21.5M/s

setTimeout

705K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now	21,474,252 Ops/sec
setTimeout	704,602 Ops/sec

Tests:

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