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; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.183 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.96.1147.52

Browser: Chrome 65

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	5907087.0 Ops/sec
int**2	10410170.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	3440128.8 Ops/sec
float*float	6017754.5 Ops/sec
float**2	10624376.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	3379399.8 Ops/sec
intintintintint	2411692.8 Ops/sec
int**5	10876012.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	3437593.0 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	2423986.2 Ops/sec
float**5	10551661.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	3430591.2 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)