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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_4_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.4.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 7 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Date.now()	8253014.0 Ops/sec
new Date().getTime();	7606233.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var timestamp = null;

Tests:

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

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

Date.now()

new Date().getTime();