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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0

Browser: Firefox 61

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
int*int	166099248.0 Ops/sec
int**2	310091872.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,2)	121420312.0 Ops/sec
float*float	166813728.0 Ops/sec
float**2	295272832.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float, 2)	131532256.0 Ops/sec
intintintintint	66195576.0 Ops/sec
int**5	304807072.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(int,5)	115868552.0 Ops/sec
floatfloatfloatfloatfloat	65300996.0 Ops/sec
float**5	285866528.0 Ops/sec
Math.pow(float,5)	126955576.0 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)