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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_4_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15G77

Browser: Mobile Safari 11

Operating system: iOS 11.4.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	4008099.0 Ops/sec
int**2	6181565.5 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	2938344.0 Ops/sec
float*float	3993457.8 Ops/sec
float**2	6235708.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	2932977.0 Ops/sec
intintintintint	1856144.5 Ops/sec
int**5	6090436.5 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	2909871.5 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	1831038.2 Ops/sec
float**5	6093721.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	2920473.2 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)