Benchmark: Math.pow(x,0.5) vs x ** 0.5

Script Preparation code:

var numbers = Array.from(Array(10000), (_,x) => (Math.random()*x));

Tests:

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
sqrt with Math.pow
x ** 0.5

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Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome Mobile 113 on Android

Test name	Executions per second
sqrt with Math.pow	281.8 Ops/sec
x ** 0.5	35428.0 Ops/sec

Math.pow(x,0.5) vs x ** 0.5 (version: 0)