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/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 68

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	5883813.5 Ops/sec
int**2	10616681.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	3478654.8 Ops/sec
float*float	5879597.0 Ops/sec
float**2	10586058.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	3501992.5 Ops/sec
intintintintint	2337219.5 Ops/sec
int**5	10255648.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	3375000.0 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	2188660.8 Ops/sec
float**5	10335589.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	3362120.8 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)