Benchmark: Fast Sqrt 2 - MeasureThat.net

Script Preparation code:

var i;
var r;
var v = 2 ** 16;

function test1() {
    for (i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
        r = Math.sqrt(v);
    }
}

function test2() {
    for (i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
        r = Q_rsqrt(v) * v;
    }
}

//Based on the fast inverse square root function
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
// Some original comments preserved for humor value
// Designed to try to mimic the original as closely as possible
const bytes = new ArrayBuffer(Float32Array.BYTES_PER_ELEMENT);
const floatView = new Float32Array(bytes);
const intView = new Uint32Array(bytes);
const threehalfs = 1.5;

function Q_rsqrt(number) {
    const x2 = number * 0.5;
    floatView[0] = number;
    intView[0] = 0x5f3759df - (intView[0] >> 1);
    let y = floatView[0];
    y = y * (threehalfs - (x2 * y * y));

    return y;
}

Tests:

Math.sqrt
test1();
Quakes fast inverse sqrt.
test2();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Math.sqrt
Quakes fast inverse sqrt.

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

ⓘ Get performance results from real users on your website with Request Metrics.

Website Performance Monitoring by Request Metrics

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:84.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/84.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 84 on Windows

View result in a separate tab

Test name	Executions per second
Math.sqrt	32059.8 Ops/sec
Quakes fast inverse sqrt.	26407.9 Ops/sec

Fast Sqrt 2 (version: 0)

Compare Quakes fast inverse squareroot

Comparing performance of: Math.sqrt vs Quakes fast inverse sqrt.

Created: 3 years ago by: Registered User

Jump to the latest result

Math.sqrt

Quakes fast inverse sqrt.

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A