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Run results for: multiplication vs exponentiation

is it more performant to multiply a number by itself manually or use the exponentiation operator '**2'?

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 106
Linux
Desktop
2 years ago
Test name Executions per second
multiplication operator 601300864.0 Ops/sec
exponentiation operator 624838208.0 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • multiplication operator

    AخA
     
    let squared = 345 * 345;

  • exponentiation operator

     
    let squared = 345**2