diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js
index 83ccfe90c11065..3b69844dc4ea0c 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ function prepareMainThreadExecution(expandArgv1 = false) {
   // Patch the process object with legacy properties and normalizations
   patchProcessObject(expandArgv1);
   setupTraceCategoryState();
+  setupPerfHooks();
   setupInspectorHooks();
   setupWarningHandler();
 
@@ -222,6 +223,11 @@ function setupTraceCategoryState() {
   toggleTraceCategoryState(isTraceCategoryEnabled('node.async_hooks'));
 }
 
+function setupPerfHooks() {
+  require('internal/perf/performance').refreshTimeOrigin();
+  require('internal/perf/utils').refreshTimeOrigin();
+}
+
 function setupInspectorHooks() {
   // If Debugger.setAsyncCallStackDepth is sent during bootstrap,
   // we cannot immediately call into JS to enable the hooks, which could
@@ -474,6 +480,7 @@ module.exports = {
   setupCoverageHooks,
   setupWarningHandler,
   setupDebugEnv,
+  setupPerfHooks,
   prepareMainThreadExecution,
   initializeDeprecations,
   initializeESMLoader,
diff --git a/lib/internal/http.js b/lib/internal/http.js
index badfaa5c4a88d8..56187a2b1cc315 100644
--- a/lib/internal/http.js
+++ b/lib/internal/http.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const {
 
 const { setUnrefTimeout } = require('internal/timers');
 
-const { InternalPerformanceEntry } = require('internal/perf/perf');
+const { InternalPerformanceEntry } = require('internal/perf/performance_entry');
 
 const {
   enqueue,
diff --git a/lib/internal/main/worker_thread.js b/lib/internal/main/worker_thread.js
index e22fd17fa2d214..d6434ff96e1185 100644
--- a/lib/internal/main/worker_thread.js
+++ b/lib/internal/main/worker_thread.js
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ const {
   setupInspectorHooks,
   setupWarningHandler,
   setupDebugEnv,
+  setupPerfHooks,
   initializeDeprecations,
   initializeWASI,
   initializeCJSLoader,
@@ -114,6 +115,7 @@ port.on('message', (message) => {
     } = message;
 
     setupTraceCategoryState();
+    setupPerfHooks();
     initializeReport();
     if (manifestSrc) {
       require('internal/process/policy').setup(manifestSrc, manifestURL);
diff --git a/lib/internal/perf/event_loop_utilization.js b/lib/internal/perf/event_loop_utilization.js
index 398c4ad4e42f58..d73b2f5a831ab9 100644
--- a/lib/internal/perf/event_loop_utilization.js
+++ b/lib/internal/perf/event_loop_utilization.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 const nodeTiming = require('internal/perf/nodetiming');
 
-const { now } = require('internal/perf/perf');
+const { now } = require('internal/perf/utils');
 
 function eventLoopUtilization(util1, util2) {
   const ls = nodeTiming.loopStart;
diff --git a/lib/internal/perf/nodetiming.js b/lib/internal/perf/nodetiming.js
index 5ff6dd38cd86d3..fcbd7efff49099 100644
--- a/lib/internal/perf/nodetiming.js
+++ b/lib/internal/perf/nodetiming.js
@@ -3,15 +3,14 @@
 const {
   ObjectDefineProperties,
   ObjectSetPrototypeOf,
-  SafeArrayIterator,
-  SafeSet,
 } = primordials;
 
+const { PerformanceEntry } = require('internal/perf/performance_entry');
+
 const {
-  PerformanceEntry,
-  kReadOnlyAttributes,
   now,
-} = require('internal/perf/perf');
+  getMilestoneTimestamp,
+} = require('internal/perf/utils');
 
 const {
   customInspectSymbol: kInspect,
@@ -29,26 +28,8 @@ const {
     NODE_PERFORMANCE_MILESTONE_ENVIRONMENT
   },
   loopIdleTime,
-  milestones,
-  timeOrigin,
 } = internalBinding('performance');
 
-function getMilestoneTimestamp(milestoneIdx) {
-  const ns = milestones[milestoneIdx];
-  if (ns === -1)
-    return ns;
-  return ns / 1e6 - timeOrigin;
-}
-
-const readOnlyAttributes = new SafeSet(new SafeArrayIterator([
-  'nodeStart',
-  'v8Start',
-  'environment',
-  'loopStart',
-  'loopExit',
-  'bootstrapComplete',
-]));
-
 class PerformanceNodeTiming {
   constructor() {
     ObjectDefineProperties(this, {
@@ -159,10 +140,6 @@ class PerformanceNodeTiming {
       idleTime: this.idleTime,
     };
   }
-
-  static get [kReadOnlyAttributes]() {
-    return readOnlyAttributes;
-  }
 }
 
 ObjectSetPrototypeOf(
diff --git a/lib/internal/perf/observe.js b/lib/internal/perf/observe.js
index c96925c723f64e..8ec8512434510b 100644
--- a/lib/internal/perf/observe.js
+++ b/lib/internal/perf/observe.js
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ const {
 const {
   InternalPerformanceEntry,
   isPerformanceEntry,
-} = require('internal/perf/perf');
+} = require('internal/perf/performance_entry');
 
 const {
   codes: {
@@ -174,11 +174,13 @@ class PerformanceObserverEntryList {
 }
 
 class PerformanceObserver {
-  [kBuffer] = [];
-  [kEntryTypes] = new SafeSet();
-  [kType] = undefined;
-
   constructor(callback) {
+    // TODO(joyeecheung): V8 snapshot does not support instance member
+    // initializers for now:
+    // https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=10704
+    this[kBuffer] = [];
+    this[kEntryTypes] = new SafeSet();
+    this[kType] = undefined;
     validateCallback(callback);
     this[kCallback] = callback;
   }
diff --git a/lib/internal/perf/performance.js b/lib/internal/perf/performance.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..ca4aed90e4e270
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/internal/perf/performance.js
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const {
+  ObjectDefineProperty,
+  ObjectDefineProperties,
+  ObjectSetPrototypeOf,
+  TypeError,
+} = primordials;
+
+const {
+  EventTarget,
+} = require('internal/event_target');
+
+const { now } = require('internal/perf/utils');
+
+const {
+  mark,
+  measure,
+  clearMarks,
+} = require('internal/perf/usertiming');
+
+const eventLoopUtilization = require('internal/perf/event_loop_utilization');
+const nodeTiming = require('internal/perf/nodetiming');
+const timerify = require('internal/perf/timerify');
+const { customInspectSymbol: kInspect } = require('internal/util');
+const { inspect } = require('util');
+
+const {
+  getTimeOriginTimestamp
+} = internalBinding('performance');
+
+class Performance extends EventTarget {
+  constructor() {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
+    throw new TypeError('Illegal constructor');
+  }
+
+  [kInspect](depth, options) {
+    if (depth < 0) return this;
+
+    const opts = {
+      ...options,
+      depth: options.depth == null ? null : options.depth - 1
+    };
+
+    return `Performance ${inspect({
+      nodeTiming: this.nodeTiming,
+      timeOrigin: this.timeOrigin,
+    }, opts)}`;
+  }
+
+}
+
+function toJSON() {
+  return {
+    nodeTiming: this.nodeTiming,
+    timeOrigin: this.timeOrigin,
+    eventLoopUtilization: this.eventLoopUtilization()
+  };
+}
+
+class InternalPerformance extends EventTarget {}
+InternalPerformance.prototype.constructor = Performance.prototype.constructor;
+ObjectSetPrototypeOf(InternalPerformance.prototype, Performance.prototype);
+
+ObjectDefineProperties(Performance.prototype, {
+  clearMarks: {
+    configurable: true,
+    enumerable: false,
+    value: clearMarks,
+  },
+  eventLoopUtilization: {
+    configurable: true,
+    enumerable: false,
+    value: eventLoopUtilization,
+  },
+  mark: {
+    configurable: true,
+    enumerable: false,
+    value: mark,
+  },
+  measure: {
+    configurable: true,
+    enumerable: false,
+    value: measure,
+  },
+  nodeTiming: {
+    configurable: true,
+    enumerable: false,
+    value: nodeTiming,
+  },
+  now: {
+    configurable: true,
+    enumerable: false,
+    value: now,
+  },
+  timerify: {
+    configurable: true,
+    enumerable: false,
+    value: timerify,
+  },
+  // This would be updated during pre-execution in case
+  // the process is launched from a snapshot.
+  // TODO(joyeecheung): we may want to warn about access to
+  // this during snapshot building.
+  timeOrigin: {
+    configurable: true,
+    enumerable: true,
+    value: getTimeOriginTimestamp(),
+  },
+  toJSON: {
+    configurable: true,
+    enumerable: true,
+    value: toJSON,
+  }
+});
+
+function refreshTimeOrigin() {
+  ObjectDefineProperty(Performance.prototype, 'timeOrigin', {
+    configurable: true,
+    enumerable: true,
+    value: getTimeOriginTimestamp(),
+  });
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  InternalPerformance,
+  refreshTimeOrigin
+};
diff --git a/lib/internal/perf/perf.js b/lib/internal/perf/performance_entry.js
similarity index 87%
rename from lib/internal/perf/perf.js
rename to lib/internal/perf/performance_entry.js
index d049d3c68fff04..f9f1c9e8966e2d 100644
--- a/lib/internal/perf/perf.js
+++ b/lib/internal/perf/performance_entry.js
@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ const {
   TypeError,
 } = primordials;
 
-const {
-  timeOrigin,
-} = internalBinding('performance');
-
 const {
   customInspectSymbol: kInspect,
 } = require('internal/util');
@@ -21,12 +17,6 @@ const kType = Symbol('kType');
 const kStart = Symbol('kStart');
 const kDuration = Symbol('kDuration');
 const kDetail = Symbol('kDetail');
-const kReadOnlyAttributes = Symbol('kReadOnlyAttributes');
-
-function now() {
-  const hr = process.hrtime();
-  return (hr[0] * 1000 + hr[1] / 1e6) - timeOrigin;
-}
 
 function isPerformanceEntry(obj) {
   return obj?.[kName] !== undefined;
@@ -88,7 +78,5 @@ ObjectSetPrototypeOf(
 module.exports = {
   InternalPerformanceEntry,
   PerformanceEntry,
-  kReadOnlyAttributes,
   isPerformanceEntry,
-  now,
 };
diff --git a/lib/internal/perf/timerify.js b/lib/internal/perf/timerify.js
index d730f62aae7eb1..dae0b06bf80c8a 100644
--- a/lib/internal/perf/timerify.js
+++ b/lib/internal/perf/timerify.js
@@ -9,10 +9,8 @@ const {
   Symbol,
 } = primordials;
 
-const {
-  InternalPerformanceEntry,
-  now,
-} = require('internal/perf/perf');
+const { InternalPerformanceEntry } = require('internal/perf/performance_entry');
+const { now } = require('internal/perf/utils');
 
 const {
   validateFunction,
diff --git a/lib/internal/perf/usertiming.js b/lib/internal/perf/usertiming.js
index 6672a3f4dfdeb0..f83091de1919a8 100644
--- a/lib/internal/perf/usertiming.js
+++ b/lib/internal/perf/usertiming.js
@@ -3,16 +3,13 @@
 const {
   ObjectKeys,
   SafeMap,
+  SafeSet,
+  SafeArrayIterator,
 } = primordials;
 
-const {
-  InternalPerformanceEntry,
-  kReadOnlyAttributes,
-  now,
-} = require('internal/perf/perf');
-
+const { InternalPerformanceEntry } = require('internal/perf/performance_entry');
+const { now } = require('internal/perf/utils');
 const { enqueue } = require('internal/perf/observe');
-
 const nodeTiming = require('internal/perf/nodetiming');
 
 const {
@@ -31,8 +28,15 @@ const {
 } = require('internal/errors');
 
 const marks = new SafeMap();
-const nodeTimingReadOnlyAttributes =
-  nodeTiming.constructor[kReadOnlyAttributes];
+
+const nodeTimingReadOnlyAttributes = new SafeSet(new SafeArrayIterator([
+  'nodeStart',
+  'v8Start',
+  'environment',
+  'loopStart',
+  'loopExit',
+  'bootstrapComplete',
+]));
 
 function getMark(name) {
   if (name === undefined) return;
diff --git a/lib/internal/perf/utils.js b/lib/internal/perf/utils.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..bcc7e223b8c882
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/internal/perf/utils.js
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const binding = internalBinding('performance');
+const {
+  milestones,
+  getTimeOrigin,
+} = binding;
+
+// TODO(joyeecheung): we may want to warn about access to
+// this during snapshot building.
+let timeOrigin = getTimeOrigin();
+
+function now() {
+  const hr = process.hrtime();
+  return (hr[0] * 1000 + hr[1] / 1e6) - timeOrigin;
+}
+
+function getMilestoneTimestamp(milestoneIdx) {
+  const ns = milestones[milestoneIdx];
+  if (ns === -1)
+    return ns;
+  return ns / 1e6 - timeOrigin;
+}
+
+function refreshTimeOrigin() {
+  timeOrigin = getTimeOrigin();
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  now,
+  getMilestoneTimestamp,
+  refreshTimeOrigin
+};
diff --git a/lib/internal/worker.js b/lib/internal/worker.js
index f2414ebeec4aae..931bce0c518fc3 100644
--- a/lib/internal/worker.js
+++ b/lib/internal/worker.js
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const {
 const EventEmitter = require('events');
 const assert = require('internal/assert');
 const path = require('path');
-const { timeOrigin } = internalBinding('performance');
+const { now } = require('internal/perf/utils');
 
 const errorCodes = require('internal/errors').codes;
 const {
@@ -504,12 +504,6 @@ function eventLoopUtilization(util1, util2) {
   return { idle: idle_delta, active: active_delta, utilization };
 }
 
-// Duplicate code from performance.now() so don't need to require perf_hooks.
-function now() {
-  const hr = process.hrtime();
-  return (hr[0] * 1000 + hr[1] / 1e6) - timeOrigin;
-}
-
 module.exports = {
   ownsProcessState,
   isMainThread,
diff --git a/lib/perf_hooks.js b/lib/perf_hooks.js
index a92a040f2de839..339d3ca4ff0ab4 100644
--- a/lib/perf_hooks.js
+++ b/lib/perf_hooks.js
@@ -1,126 +1,23 @@
 'use strict';
 
 const {
-  ObjectDefineProperties,
   ObjectDefineProperty,
-  ObjectSetPrototypeOf,
-  TypeError,
 } = primordials;
 
 const {
-  timeOriginTimestamp,
   constants,
 } = internalBinding('performance');
 
-const {
-  EventTarget,
-} = require('internal/event_target');
-
-const {
-  PerformanceEntry,
-  now,
-} = require('internal/perf/perf');
+const { PerformanceEntry } = require('internal/perf/performance_entry');
 const { PerformanceObserver } = require('internal/perf/observe');
-
-const {
-  PerformanceMark,
-  mark,
-  measure,
-  clearMarks,
-} = require('internal/perf/usertiming');
+const { PerformanceMark } = require('internal/perf/usertiming');
+const { InternalPerformance } = require('internal/perf/performance');
 
 const {
   createHistogram
 } = require('internal/histogram');
 
-const eventLoopUtilization = require('internal/perf/event_loop_utilization');
 const monitorEventLoopDelay = require('internal/perf/event_loop_delay');
-const nodeTiming = require('internal/perf/nodetiming');
-const timerify = require('internal/perf/timerify');
-const { customInspectSymbol: kInspect } = require('internal/util');
-const { inspect } = require('util');
-
-class Performance extends EventTarget {
-  constructor() {
-    // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
-    throw new TypeError('Illegal constructor');
-  }
-
-  [kInspect](depth, options) {
-    if (depth < 0) return this;
-
-    const opts = {
-      ...options,
-      depth: options.depth == null ? null : options.depth - 1
-    };
-
-    return `Performance ${inspect({
-      nodeTiming: this.nodeTiming,
-      timeOrigin: this.timeOrigin,
-    }, opts)}`;
-  }
-
-}
-
-function toJSON() {
-  return {
-    nodeTiming: this.nodeTiming,
-    timeOrigin: this.timeOrigin,
-    eventLoopUtilization: this.eventLoopUtilization()
-  };
-}
-
-class InternalPerformance extends EventTarget {}
-InternalPerformance.prototype.constructor = Performance.prototype.constructor;
-ObjectSetPrototypeOf(InternalPerformance.prototype, Performance.prototype);
-
-ObjectDefineProperties(Performance.prototype, {
-  clearMarks: {
-    configurable: true,
-    enumerable: false,
-    value: clearMarks,
-  },
-  eventLoopUtilization: {
-    configurable: true,
-    enumerable: false,
-    value: eventLoopUtilization,
-  },
-  mark: {
-    configurable: true,
-    enumerable: false,
-    value: mark,
-  },
-  measure: {
-    configurable: true,
-    enumerable: false,
-    value: measure,
-  },
-  nodeTiming: {
-    configurable: true,
-    enumerable: false,
-    value: nodeTiming,
-  },
-  now: {
-    configurable: true,
-    enumerable: false,
-    value: now,
-  },
-  timerify: {
-    configurable: true,
-    enumerable: false,
-    value: timerify,
-  },
-  timeOrigin: {
-    configurable: true,
-    enumerable: true,
-    value: timeOriginTimestamp,
-  },
-  toJSON: {
-    configurable: true,
-    enumerable: true,
-    value: toJSON,
-  }
-});
 
 module.exports = {
   PerformanceEntry,
diff --git a/src/node_perf.cc b/src/node_perf.cc
index 8c5778ecb10bb0..41c93ea1640e5e 100644
--- a/src/node_perf.cc
+++ b/src/node_perf.cc
@@ -274,6 +274,15 @@ void ELDHistogram::OnInterval() {
                  "stddev", histogram()->Stddev());
 }
 
+void GetTimeOrigin(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
+  args.GetReturnValue().Set(Number::New(args.GetIsolate(), timeOrigin / 1e6));
+}
+
+void GetTimeOriginTimeStamp(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
+  args.GetReturnValue().Set(
+      Number::New(args.GetIsolate(), timeOriginTimestamp / MICROS_PER_MILLIS));
+}
+
 void Initialize(Local<Object> target,
                 Local<Value> unused,
                 Local<Context> context,
@@ -308,6 +317,8 @@ void Initialize(Local<Object> target,
                  RemoveGarbageCollectionTracking);
   env->SetMethod(target, "notify", Notify);
   env->SetMethod(target, "loopIdleTime", LoopIdleTime);
+  env->SetMethod(target, "getTimeOrigin", GetTimeOrigin);
+  env->SetMethod(target, "getTimeOriginTimestamp", GetTimeOriginTimeStamp);
 
   Local<Object> constants = Object::New(isolate);
 
@@ -344,17 +355,6 @@ void Initialize(Local<Object> target,
   PropertyAttribute attr =
       static_cast<PropertyAttribute>(ReadOnly | DontDelete);
 
-  target->DefineOwnProperty(context,
-                            FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING(isolate, "timeOrigin"),
-                            Number::New(isolate, timeOrigin / 1e6),
-                            attr).ToChecked();
-
-  target->DefineOwnProperty(
-      context,
-      FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING(isolate, "timeOriginTimestamp"),
-      Number::New(isolate, timeOriginTimestamp / MICROS_PER_MILLIS),
-      attr).ToChecked();
-
   target->DefineOwnProperty(context,
                             env->constants_string(),
                             constants,
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-bootstrap-modules.js b/test/parallel/test-bootstrap-modules.js
index f18f85728d36e3..5cf9b8df2a38e6 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-bootstrap-modules.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-bootstrap-modules.js
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ const expectedModules = new Set([
   'Internal Binding module_wrap',
   'Internal Binding native_module',
   'Internal Binding options',
+  'Internal Binding performance',
   'Internal Binding process_methods',
   'Internal Binding report',
   'Internal Binding serdes',
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ const expectedModules = new Set([
   'NativeModule internal/fs/rimraf',
   'NativeModule internal/fs/watchers',
   'NativeModule internal/heap_utils',
+  'NativeModule internal/histogram',
   'NativeModule internal/idna',
   'NativeModule internal/linkedlist',
   'NativeModule internal/modules/run_main',
@@ -77,6 +79,14 @@ const expectedModules = new Set([
   'NativeModule internal/modules/esm/translators',
   'NativeModule internal/process/esm_loader',
   'NativeModule internal/options',
+  'NativeModule internal/perf/event_loop_utilization',
+  'NativeModule internal/perf/nodetiming',
+  'NativeModule internal/perf/observe',
+  'NativeModule internal/perf/performance',
+  'NativeModule internal/perf/performance_entry',
+  'NativeModule internal/perf/timerify',
+  'NativeModule internal/perf/usertiming',
+  'NativeModule internal/perf/utils',
   'NativeModule internal/priority_queue',
   'NativeModule internal/process/execution',
   'NativeModule internal/process/per_thread',