Run results for: math.pow vs multiply

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

power

509.9M/s

Math.pow

7.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ power	509,937,792 Ops/sec
Math.pow	7,232,178 Ops/sec

Tests:

Math.pow
var distance = Math.pow(12-6,2) + Math.pow(57-32, 2) + Math.pow(86-12,2)
power
var distance = (12-6)*(12-6) + (57-32)*(57-32) + (86-12)*(86-12)