Run results for: Intl.DateTimeFormat vs Date().toLocaleString()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 141

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

Date().toLocaleString

33K/s

Intl.DateTimeFormat

32K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Date().toLocaleString	33,459 Ops/sec
Intl.DateTimeFormat	31,843 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var options = {
  year: 'numeric', month: 'numeric', day: 'numeric',
  hour: 'numeric', minute: 'numeric', second: 'numeric',
  hour12: false,
  fractionalSecondDigits: 3,
}

Tests:

Date().toLocaleString
new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", options)
Intl.DateTimeFormat
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', options).format(new Date())