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Run results for: Math.pow vs ** vs * forcing floats vs bigint

A minor update to see if forced floats perform differently than ints and also see how BigInts compare (note: Math.pow does not work on BigInts).

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 118
Windows
Desktop
one year ago
Test name Executions per second
pow int 3036649.5 Ops/sec
** int 387686144.0 Ops/sec
* int 390524128.0 Ops/sec
pow float 3052499.0 Ops/sec
** float 392365792.0 Ops/sec
* float 390319840.0 Ops/sec
** bigint 1042951.6 Ops/sec
* bigint 391726048.0 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • pow int

    AخA
     
    var tmp = Math.pow(6, 21);

  • ** int

     
    var tmp = 6 ** 21;

  • * int

     
    var tmp = 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6;

  • pow float

     
    var tmp = Math.pow(6.1, 21.1);

  • ** float

     
    var tmp = 6.1 ** 21.1;

  • * float

     
    var tmp = 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1;

  • ** bigint

     
    var tmp = 6n ** 21n;

  • * bigint

     
    var tmp = 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n;