Run results for: Math.pow vs ** vs *, fixed so Chrome doesn't optimize away the whole thing

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 103

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Script Preparation code:

var sum = 0

Tests:

pow
sum = Math.pow(6, 21);
**
sum = 6 ** 21;
*
sum = 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6;