Benchmark: Date vs moment 1238uu

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.22.0/moment.min.js'></script>

Tests:

moment
const now = moment();
dDate
const now = new Date().getTime()

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
moment
dDate

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one month ago):

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**Benchmark Overview**

The benchmark is designed to compare the performance of two JavaScript libraries: Moment.js and a custom implementation using the Date object. The test case measures the execution time of creating a new Date object or using the moment() function from Moment.js.

**Options Compared**

Two options are compared:

1. **Moment.js**: A popular JavaScript library for working with dates.
2. **Custom Date implementation**: Using the built-in Date object in JavaScript.

**Pros and Cons of Each Approach**

**Moment.js:**

Pros:

* High-level abstraction, making it easier to work with dates
* Supports various date formats and timezone calculations
* Active community support and large user base

Cons:

* Additional dependency ( Moment.js library)
* Potential performance overhead due to the abstraction layer
* Not suitable for all use cases where raw Date object manipulation is required

**Custom Date implementation:**

Pros:

* No additional dependency or overhead
* Raw Date object manipulation allows for fine-grained control and optimization
* Suitable for most use cases where only basic date operations are required

Cons:

* Requires manual handling of dates, which can lead to errors if not done correctly
* May require more boilerplate code compared to using Moment.js

**Other Considerations**

The benchmark uses the `executionsPerSecond` metric to measure performance. This metric represents the average number of times each option is executed per second.

In this specific benchmark, the custom Date implementation outperforms Moment.js, indicating that creating a new Date object using the built-in JavaScript functions is faster.

**Library Used**

Moment.js is used as a library in this benchmark. It's a popular and widely-used library for working with dates, providing a high-level abstraction and various features like date formatting, timezone calculations, and more.

**Special JS Feature or Syntax**

There are no special JavaScript features or syntax mentioned in the provided information. The focus of the benchmark is on comparing the performance of two different approaches to creating Date objects.

Overall, this benchmark provides valuable insights into the performance characteristics of using Moment.js versus a custom implementation using the built-in Date object in JavaScript.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 92 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
moment	1631567.9 Ops/sec
dDate	3894508.2 Ops/sec

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moment

dDate

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Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one month ago):