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/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 68

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	4141532.0 Ops/sec
int**2	7711674.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	2506831.0 Ops/sec
float*float	4292461.0 Ops/sec
float**2	7642685.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	2518196.0 Ops/sec
intintintintint	1701230.4 Ops/sec
int**5	6988980.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	2350180.5 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	1594997.5 Ops/sec
float**5	7427354.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	2501621.5 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)