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Run results for: Math.random vs Date.now

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 109
Windows
Desktop
one year ago
Test name Executions per second
Math.random 5795316.0 Ops/sec
Date.now 3570669.8 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • Math.random

  • Date.now

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