Run results for: Math.pow vs ** vs * with side effects

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0

Browser: Firefox 119

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Script Preparation code:

var sum = 0;

Tests:

pow
sum = (sum + Math.pow(6, 42)) % 123456789;
**
sum = (sum + 6 ** 42) % 123456789;
*
sum = (sum + 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 *6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6) % 123456789;