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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 68

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	6354225.0 Ops/sec
int**2	11535881.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	3721426.8 Ops/sec
float*float	6484718.0 Ops/sec
float**2	11360887.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	3725518.5 Ops/sec
intintintintint	2569442.2 Ops/sec
int**5	11527502.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	3743853.0 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	2566002.5 Ops/sec
float**5	11246465.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	3685756.0 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)