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/70.0.3521.2 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 70

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	3188779.8 Ops/sec
int**2	5565854.5 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	2071925.4 Ops/sec
float*float	3196969.0 Ops/sec
float**2	5529221.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	2057934.9 Ops/sec
intintintintint	1223666.2 Ops/sec
int**5	5433759.5 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	2049801.4 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	1247299.5 Ops/sec
float**5	5445678.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	2060930.2 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)