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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 65

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	1629859.4 Ops/sec
int**2	2774423.8 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	898330.8 Ops/sec
float*float	1621003.6 Ops/sec
float**2	2654834.5 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	878202.9 Ops/sec
intintintintint	660517.4 Ops/sec
int**5	2787413.8 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	906680.3 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	617136.1 Ops/sec
float**5	2646841.5 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	881927.7 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)