Run results for: Math.pow vs ** vs * vs for loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

1044.2M/s

1031.0M/s

for loop

95.1M/s

pow

18.3M/s

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Tests:

pow
var tmp = Math.pow(6, 21);
**
var tmp = 6 ** 21;
*
var tmp = 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6;
for loop
var tmp = 6; var pow = tmp; for (let i = 21; i > 1; i--) { tmp = tmp * pow; }