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

Test if assigning Date.now() to a variable and than calling it is faster than calling Date.now().

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 116
Windows
Desktop
one year ago
Test name Executions per second
Date.now() 6329167.0 Ops/sec
now() 8543692.0 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
Tests:

  • Date.now()

  • now()