Benchmark: Moment.js inicialization with raw string vs inicialization with Date instance

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/moment/moment/2.7.0/moment.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var date = '2020-03-04T10:20:30.421Z';
var loops = 10000;

Tests:

Raw string inicialization
for (var i = 0; i < loops; i++) { moment(date); }
Date instance initialization
for (var i = 0; i < loops; i++) { moment(new Date(date)); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Raw string inicialization
Date instance initialization

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Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 80 on Ubuntu

Test name	Executions per second
Raw string inicialization	4.8 Ops/sec
Date instance initialization	21.9 Ops/sec

Moment.js inicialization with raw string vs inicialization with Date instance (version: 0)