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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 68

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	2678864.8 Ops/sec
int**2	4521404.5 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	1634216.6 Ops/sec
float*float	2939469.0 Ops/sec
float**2	4733045.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	1833265.6 Ops/sec
intintintintint	1194031.0 Ops/sec
int**5	5522029.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	1662048.0 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	1120790.4 Ops/sec
float**5	5172459.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	1576405.9 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)