Run results for: Math.pow(x,0.5) vs Math.sqrt(x)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0

Browser: Firefox 121

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Math.sqrt

23K/s

sqrt with Math.pow

21K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Math.sqrt	23,407 Ops/sec
sqrt with Math.pow	20,770 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var numbers = Array.from(Array(10000), (_,x) => (Math.random()*x));

Tests: