Run results for: math pow (with few extra variants, but without multiplication example and it's pow 8, not pow 2)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 118

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Math.pow	15784721.0 Ops/sec
pow2 bitwise	7454481.5 Ops/sec
pow2 summ	43277.2 Ops/sec
pow2 multi	5733162.5 Ops/sec
pow (mult for loop)	30622784.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function powNaive(x, y) {
	if (!y) return 1;
	let tmp = x;
	for (let i = 1; i < y; i++) {
		tmp *= x;
  	}
	return tmp;
}

// from https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/217369
function pow2B(x, y) {
    if (y < 2) { return y ? x : 1 }
    if (y & 1) { return x * pow2B(x, y & 0x7FFFFFFE)}
    const p = pow2B(x, y >> 1);
    return p * p;
}

// other two functions from the same stackexchange post
function pow(x, y) {
  if (!y) { return 1 }
  let tmp = res = x;
  for (let i = 1; i < y; i++) {
    for (let j = 1; j < x; j++) { tmp += res }
    res = tmp;
  }
  return res;
}

function pow2(x, y) {
  if (!y) { return 1; }
  if (y % 2) {
    return x * pow2(x, y - 1);
  }
  const p = pow2(x, y/2);
  return p * p;
}

Tests:

Math.pow
var x = Math.pow(54, 8);
pow2 bitwise
var y = pow2B(54, 8)
pow2 summ
var y = pow(54, 8)
pow2 multi
var y = pow2(54, 8)
pow (mult for loop)
var y = powNaive(54, 8)

Run results for: math pow (with few extra variants, but without multiplication example and it's pow 8, not pow 2)

Math.pow

pow2 bitwise

pow2 summ

pow2 multi

pow (mult for loop)