Run results for: Math.pow() versus **

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 81

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.4

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
pow	160300.9 Ops/sec
**	7535544.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var values = [];
const rand = () => Math.floor(5+Math.random()*10);
for(let i=0; i<50; i++){
   values.push([rand(), rand()]);
}

AخA
 
var values = [];const rand = () => Math.floor(5+Math.random()*10);for(let i=0; i<50; i++){   values.push([rand(), rand()]);}

Tests:

values.forEach(x => (Math.pow(x[0], x[1])))

 
values.forEach(x => (Math.pow(x[0], x[1])))