Run results for: a*a...*a vs a***x vs Math.pow(a,x)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 90

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	4696688.5 Ops/sec
int**2	9132634.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	3623022.5 Ops/sec
float*float	5289712.5 Ops/sec
float**2	8990032.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	3592944.8 Ops/sec
intintintintint	2154760.8 Ops/sec
int**5	4836198.5 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	3605313.0 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	2051419.4 Ops/sec
float**5	4642816.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	3652745.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var int = 59;
var float = Math.random();

Tests:

Run results for: aa...a vs a***x vs Math.pow(a,x)