Benchmark: Luxon vs Moment Common Operations Benchmark Individual

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/luxon@3.0.3/build/global/luxon.min.js"></script>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.29.3/moment.min.js'></script>
<script src="//unpkg.com/timeago.js">
</script>

Tests:

Luxon now
luxon.DateTime.now();
Moment now
moment();
Luxon Epoch
luxon.DateTime.now().valueOf();
Moment Epoch
moment().valueOf();
Luxon ISO8601
luxon.DateTime.now().toISO();
Moment ISO8601
moment().toISOString();
Luxon Diff
luxon.DateTime.now().diff(luxon.DateTime.fromISO("2020-02-19T00:51:53.623839+00:00")).as("milliseconds");
Moment Diff
moment.duration(moment().diff(moment("2020-02-19T00:51:53.623839+00:00"))).as("milliseconds");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Luxon now
Moment now
Luxon Epoch
Moment Epoch
Luxon ISO8601
Moment ISO8601
Luxon Diff
Moment Diff

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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

LLMs can make mistakes. Check important info.

Let's break down the provided benchmark and its options.

**Benchmark Overview**

The benchmark is designed to compare the performance of two popular JavaScript date manipulation libraries: Luxon and Moment.js. The test cases focus on various common operations, such as getting the current timestamp, converting to epoch time, formatting as ISO8601, and calculating differences between dates.

**Test Cases**

Each test case represents a specific operation that is executed repeatedly to measure its performance. The options being compared are:

1. **Luxon now**: `luxon.DateTime.now()` vs `moment()`
	* Pros: Luxon's `DateTime` class provides more features and flexibility than Moment.js, which can result in better performance for some operations.
	* Cons: Moment.js has a larger user base and is more widely adopted, making it easier to find resources and libraries that integrate with it.
2. **Moment now**: `moment()` vs `luxon.DateTime.now()`
	* Pros: Moment.js has a more extensive set of features and is generally considered easier to use than Luxon for simple date manipulation tasks.
	* Cons: As mentioned earlier, Luxon's `DateTime` class provides more features and flexibility, which can result in better performance for some operations.
3. **Luxon Epoch**: `luxon.DateTime.now().valueOf()` vs `moment().valueOf()`
	* Pros: Both libraries provide a way to convert dates to epoch time, but Luxon's method may be faster due to its more optimized implementation.
4. **Luxon ISO8601**: `luxon.DateTime.now().toISO()` vs `moment().toISOString()`
	* Pros: Moment.js has a more extensive set of formatting options for ISO8601, which can result in better output quality.
5. **Luxon Diff**: `luxon.DateTime.now().diff(luxon.DateTime.fromISO("2020-02-19T00:51:53.623839+00:00")).as("milliseconds")` vs `moment.duration(moment().diff(moment("2020-02-19T00:51:53.623839+00:00))).as("milliseconds")`
	* Pros: Luxon's `DateTime` class provides a more modern and efficient way of calculating date differences.
6. **Moment Diff**: `moment.duration(moment().diff(moment("2020-02-19T00:51:53.623839+00:00"))).as("milliseconds")` vs `luxon.DateTime.now().diff(luxon.DateTime.fromISO("2020-02-19T00:51:53.623839+00:00")).as("milliseconds")`
	* Pros: Moment.js has a more extensive set of features for working with date differences, which can result in better performance and output quality.

**Libraries**

1. **Luxon**: A modern JavaScript date library that provides a flexible and efficient way of working with dates. It is designed to be more performant and feature-rich than older libraries like Moment.js.
2. **Moment.js**: A widely adopted JavaScript date library that provides a simple and intuitive API for working with dates. While it has a larger user base, it may not be as performant or feature-rich as Luxon.

**Other Alternatives**

1. **Date-Fns**: Another popular JavaScript date library that provides a simple and efficient way of working with dates.
2. **Day.js**: A modern JavaScript date library that provides a flexible and efficient way of working with dates, similar to Luxon.

In summary, the benchmark is designed to compare the performance of two popular JavaScript date manipulation libraries: Luxon and Moment.js. The test cases focus on various common operations, such as getting the current timestamp, converting to epoch time, formatting as ISO8601, and calculating differences between dates. While both libraries have their strengths and weaknesses, Luxon's `DateTime` class provides more features and flexibility than Moment.js, which can result in better performance for some operations.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 114 on Linux

View result in a separate tab

Test name	Executions per second
Luxon now	1726023.6 Ops/sec
Moment now	2664002.8 Ops/sec
Luxon Epoch	1673367.1 Ops/sec
Moment Epoch	2548932.2 Ops/sec
Luxon ISO8601	1109612.2 Ops/sec
Moment ISO8601	656977.8 Ops/sec
Luxon Diff	155839.4 Ops/sec
Moment Diff	103630.8 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

Luxon vs Moment Common Operations Benchmark Individual (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Luxon now vs Moment now vs Luxon Epoch vs Moment Epoch vs Luxon ISO8601 vs Moment ISO8601 vs Luxon Diff vs Moment Diff

Created: one year ago by: Guest

Jump to the latest result

Luxon now

Moment now

Luxon Epoch

Moment Epoch

Luxon ISO8601

Moment ISO8601

Luxon Diff

Moment Diff

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):