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	6104226.0 Ops/sec
int**2	10902487.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	3603250.8 Ops/sec
float*float	5978872.0 Ops/sec
float**2	10639815.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	3646917.0 Ops/sec
intintintintint	2409675.0 Ops/sec
int**5	10874671.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	3673354.2 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	2429350.5 Ops/sec
float**5	10428152.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	3469390.8 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)