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; rv:151.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/151.0

Browser: Firefox 151

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 19 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
new Date	1264750.9 Ops/sec
modify Date	1270573.2 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: