Run results for: Math.pow vs multiplication with decimals and multiple integers

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0

Browser: Firefox 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

pow

1.8M/s

mult

1.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ pow	1,780,737 Ops/sec
mult	1,330,869 Ops/sec

Tests:

pow
let array = []; for(let i = 0; i < 100; i++){ array.push(Math.pow(i,2)); } for(let i = 0; i < 100; i++){ const decimal = i+.1; array.push(Math.pow(decimal,2)); }
mult
let array = []; for(let i = 0; i < 100; i++){ array.push(i*i); } for(let i = 0; i < 100; i++){ const decimal = i+.1; array.push(decimal*decimal); }