Benchmark: Moment vs Luxon add day / add sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.24.0/moment.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment-timezone/0.5.34/moment-timezone.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/luxon@1.21.0/build/global/luxon.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

window.__date__ = new Date();
window.__tz__ = 'America/Los_Angeles';
window.__moment_date__ = moment.tz(window.__date__, window.__tz__)
window.__luxon_date__ = luxon.DateTime.fromJSDate(window.__date__, {zone: window.__tz__})

Tests:

Moment add day
moment.tz(window.__date__, window.__tz__).add(10, 'day')
Luxon add day
luxon.DateTime.fromJSDate(window.__date__, {zone: window.__tz__}).plus({day: 10})
Moment add second
moment.tz(window.__date__, window.__tz__).add(1000, 'second')
Luxon add second
luxon.DateTime.fromJSDate(window.__date__, {zone: window.__tz__}).plus({second: 1000})
Luxon, add day, precreated date
window.__luxon_date__.plus({day: 100})

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Moment add day
Luxon add day
Moment add second
Luxon add second
Luxon, add day, precreated date

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 25 days ago):

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**Overview of the Benchmark**

The provided JSON represents a JavaScript microbenchmarking test for comparing the performance of two date and time libraries: Moment.js and Luxon.

**Library Explanation**

1. **Moment.js**: A popular JavaScript library for working with dates and times. It provides a wide range of features, including formatting, parsing, and manipulating dates.
2. **Luxon**: A modern JavaScript library for working with dates and times. It provides a more efficient and flexible alternative to Moment.js.

**Benchmark Test Cases**

The test consists of four test cases:

1. `Moment add day`: Tests the performance of adding 10 days to a date using Moment.js's `add` method.
2. `Luxon add day`: Tests the performance of adding 10 days to a date using Luxon's `plus` method.
3. `Moment add second`: Tests the performance of adding 1000 seconds (or 16 minutes and 40 seconds) to a date using Moment.js's `add` method.
4. `Luxon add second`: Tests the performance of adding 1000 seconds to a date using Luxon's `plus` method.

Additionally, there are two more test cases that use precreated dates:

1. `Luxon, add day, precreated date`: Tests the performance of adding 100 days to a precreated date using Luxon's `plus` method.
2. `Luxon add day`: Tests the performance of adding 10 days to a precreated date using Luxon's `plus` method.

**Options Comparison**

The two libraries use different approaches to perform date arithmetic:

1. **Moment.js**: Uses a time zone-aware approach, where dates are stored in a specific time zone and can be manipulated using this context.
2. **Luxon**: Also uses a time zone-aware approach, but with a more flexible and efficient design.

**Pros and Cons**

1. **Moment.js**:
	* Pros: Wide range of features, easy to use, well-established community.
	* Cons: Can be slow for certain operations, limited support for modern JavaScript features.
2. **Luxon**:
	* Pros: Efficient, flexible, and modern design, good performance.
	* Cons: Smaller community compared to Moment.js, some features may require additional setup.

**Special JS Features**

None of the libraries explicitly use special JavaScript features in their test cases.

**Other Considerations**

1. **Browser Support**: The benchmark tests are run on a Chrome 97 browser, which is relatively modern.
2. **Device Platform**: The tests are run on a desktop platform, but it's possible to add support for other devices (e.g., mobile) to further evaluate the libraries' performance.

**Alternative Libraries**

If you're looking for alternative libraries for date and time manipulation in JavaScript, some popular options include:

1. **Date-fns**: A lightweight library that provides a simple and efficient API for working with dates.
2. **js-joda**: A JavaScript port of the popular Joda-Time library.
3. **Day.js**: A modern JavaScript library that provides a fast and efficient way to work with dates.

Keep in mind that each library has its strengths and weaknesses, and the choice ultimately depends on your specific use case and requirements.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 97 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
Moment add day	38311.2 Ops/sec
Luxon add day	19289.6 Ops/sec
Moment add second	37388.1 Ops/sec
Luxon add second	16183.0 Ops/sec
Luxon, add day, precreated date	24217.9 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

Moment vs Luxon add day / add sec (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Moment add day vs Luxon add day vs Moment add second vs Luxon add second vs Luxon, add day, precreated date

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

Jump to the latest result

Moment add day

Luxon add day

Moment add second

Luxon add second

Luxon, add day, precreated date

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 25 days ago):