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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 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 131
Linux
Desktop
3 months ago
Test name Executions per second
pow int 151516864.0 Ops/sec
** int 124249296.0 Ops/sec
* int 119102904.0 Ops/sec
pow float 103902560.0 Ops/sec
** float 121614648.0 Ops/sec
* float 130819520.0 Ops/sec
** bigint 4712637.5 Ops/sec
* bigint 111259632.0 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;