Run results for: Math.hypot vs Math.sqrt

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.7 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.7

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Math.hypot	14.4 Ops/sec
Math.sqrt	18.3 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function testHypot() {
  for (let i=0; i < 1000; i++){
    for (let j=0; j < 1000; j++) {
      Math.hypot(i, j)
    }
  }
}
function testSqrt() {
  for (let i=0; i < 1000; i++){
    for (let j=0; j < 1000; j++) {
      Math.sqrt(i*i+j*j)
    }
  }
}

Tests:

Math.hypot
testHypot()
Math.sqrt
testSqrt()

Run results for: Math.hypot vs Math.sqrt

Is Math.hypot actually faster than Math.sqrt?

Math.hypot

Math.sqrt