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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.5 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 26

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 months ago

modify Date

4.4M/s

new Date

4.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ modify Date	4,403,636 Ops/sec
new Date	4,164,248 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: