Run results for: a*a...*a vs a***x vs Math.pow(a,x)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 68

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	5313469.5 Ops/sec
int**2	9912964.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	3094293.2 Ops/sec
float*float	5534535.5 Ops/sec
float**2	9874090.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	3142062.2 Ops/sec
intintintintint	2055442.5 Ops/sec
int**5	9690017.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	3452776.2 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	2669503.5 Ops/sec
float**5	12549440.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	4195024.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var int = 59;
var float = Math.random();

Tests:

Run results for: aa...a vs a***x vs Math.pow(a,x)