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; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0

Browser: Firefox 152

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 19 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
new Date	22677396.0 Ops/sec
modify Date	22041566.0 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: