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/68.0.3440.84 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 68

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	4432760.0 Ops/sec
int**2	7896167.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	2484267.0 Ops/sec
float*float	4357056.0 Ops/sec
float**2	7815215.5 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	2480090.0 Ops/sec
intintintintint	1713059.9 Ops/sec
int**5	7934245.5 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	2455406.5 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	1694040.1 Ops/sec
float**5	7918369.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	2482611.5 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)