Run results for: Math.pow() vs ** operator - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 97

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Math.pow() - Integer ^ Integer	8951417.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow() - Real ^ Integer	8821491.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow() - Real ^ Real	9007077.0 Ops/sec
** - Integer ^ Integer	997521300.0 Ops/sec
** - Real ^ Integer	987806500.0 Ops/sec
** - Real ^ Real	1025097000.0 Ops/sec

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Tests:

Math.pow() - Integer ^ Integer
Math.pow(2, 999)
Math.pow() - Real ^ Integer
Math.pow(1.9, 999)
Math.pow() - Real ^ Real
Math.pow(1.9, 999.1)
** - Integer ^ Integer
2 ** 999
** - Real ^ Integer
1.9 ** 999
** - Real ^ Real
1.9 ** 999.1