Run results for: Date.parse and toString() vs new Date - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Browser: Firefox 62

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new Date	3316517.0 Ops/sec
Date.parse	5850000.0 Ops/sec
Date.parse and toString	5017931.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

new Date
new Date('01/01/2001');
Date.parse
Date.parse('01/01/2001');
Date.parse and toString
Date.parse('01/01/2001'.toString());