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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; SM-S9110 Build/UP1A.231005.007) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.6834.163 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 132

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Math.sqrt	48566.1 Ops/sec
sqrt with Math.pow	57985.6 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 => Math.pow(x,0.5));
numbers.forEach(x => Math.pow(x,0.5));

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

Math.sqrt

sqrt with Math.pow