Run results for: Math.pow(x,0.5) vs Math.sqrt(x)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 106

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Math.sqrt	1168.7 Ops/sec
sqrt with Math.pow	1174.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var numbers = Array.from(Array(10000), (_,x) => (Math.random()*x));

AخA
 
var numbers = Array.from(Array(10000), (_,x) => (Math.random()*x));

Tests:

Math.sqrt
numbers.forEach(x => Math.sqrt(x));
numbers.forEach(x => Math.sqrt(x));
sqrt with Math.pow
numbers.forEach(x => Math.pow(x,0.5));
numbers.forEach(x => Math.pow(x,0.5));