Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.102 Safari/537.36
Chrome 85
Mac OS X 10.15.5
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
pow 7603172.5 Ops/sec
** 869520832.0 Ops/sec
* 870851520.0 Ops/sec
Tests:
  • pow

    AخA
     
    var tmp = Math.pow(6, 21);
  • **

     
    var tmp = 6 ** 21;
  • *

     
    var tmp = 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6;