Run results for: create a new Date object vs modifing an existing one

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 148

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 months ago

modify Date

30.2M/s

new Date

21.9M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ modify Date	30,243,002 Ops/sec
new Date	21,901,400 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="date.new"></div>
<div id="date.set"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var now;
var elNow = document.getElementById('date.new');

var date = new Date(0);
var elSet = document.getElementById('date.set');

Tests: