Run results for: Math.pow(2,n) vs Table lookup?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Table lookup

11.7M/s

Math.pow

6.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Table lookup	11,681,200 Ops/sec
Math.pow	6,886,848 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var POWERS = [
		1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16384,32768,
		65536,131072,262144,524288,1048576,2097152
		
];

Tests:

Table lookup
let p = 15; let x; if (p > 20) { x = Math.pow(2,p); } else { x = POWERS[20]; }
Math.pow
let p = 15; let x; x = Math.pow(2,p);