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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Math.sqrt	16895.1 Ops/sec
sqrt with Math.pow	32537.6 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 => x ** 0.5);
numbers.forEach(x => x ** 0.5);