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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/138.0

Browser: Firefox 138

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Date.now()

20.9M/s

new Date().getTime();

16.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date.now()	20,947,864 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	16,656,021 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests: