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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 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Mobile Safari 16
iOS 16.1
Mobile
2 years ago
Test name Executions per second
multiplication operator 449762496.0 Ops/sec
exponentiation operator 453381632.0 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • multiplication operator

    AخA
     
    let squared = 345 * 345;

  • exponentiation operator

     
    let squared = 345**2