Run results for: Moment.js inicialization with raw string vs inicialization with Date instance

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Browser: Firefox 78

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Raw string inicialization	2.5 Ops/sec
Date instance initialization	11.2 Ops/sec

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)); }