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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

sqrt with Math.pow

33K/s

Math.sqrt

17K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ sqrt with Math.pow	32,538 Ops/sec
Math.sqrt	16,895 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: