Benchmark: Math.pow vs ** vs *, fixed so Chrome doesn't optimize away the whole thing

Script Preparation code:

var sum = 0

Tests:

pow
sum = Math.pow(6, 21);
**
sum = 6 ** 21;
*
sum = 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6;

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

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Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 103 on Mac OS X 10.11.6

Math.pow vs ** vs *, fixed so Chrome doesn't optimize away the whole thing (version: 0)