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Bug 496200

Summary:	Avoid using 'new Date().getTime()'
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	10.0
Target Milestone:	13.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Michael Rennie

2016-06-15 12:37:58 EDT

Instead we should be using Date.now() - it avoids creating spurious instances of Date, and depending on which browser you run the jsperf tests in, it can be twice as fast.

https://jsperf.com/date-now-vs-new-date-gettime/8

Comment 1 Michael Rennie

2016-07-19 09:24:32 EDT

Fixed in:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=1f8a2f16947507cf6c4db6ee19c1f4b5d3ea5714

There are a few occurrences of its use left in some of the embedded requirejs's. I left those ones alone.