Run results for: Date.now() vs new Date().getTime()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.162 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 80

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Date.now()	2226959.5 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	1704194.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

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var timestamp = null;

Tests:

Date.now()
timestamp = Date.now();
timestamp = Date.now();
new Date().getTime();
timestamp = new Date().getTime();
timestamp = new Date().getTime();