Run results for: Fast approx. atan2 vs Math.atan2 vs cached atan2 (v8 optimization buster)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Math.atan2

3.1M/s

cached Math.atan2

2.8M/s

fast approx. atan2

2.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Math.atan2	3,143,477 Ops/sec
cached Math.atan2	2,816,584 Ops/sec
fast approx. atan2	2,757,652 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const abs = Math.abs, min = Math.min, max = Math.max, PI = Math.PI, PI2 = PI / 2;
const FAT2 = {
    ax: 0.1, ay: 0.1
}; //variables for gc (v8 optimizations);
let a = 0.1, s = 0.1, r = 0.1;
var fastAtan2 = (y, x) => {
     FAT2.ax = abs(x);
     FAT2.ay = abs(y);
     a = min(FAT2.ax, FAT2.ay) / max(x, y);
     s = a * a;
     r = ((-0.0464964749 * s + 0.15931422) * s - 0.327622764) * s * a + a;
     if (FAT2.ay > FAT2.ax) r = PI2 - r;
     if (x < 0) r = PI - r;
     if (y < 0) r = -r;
     return r;
}; //this is the fastest i can get it rn
var atan2 = Math.atan2;

Tests:

Math.atan2
eval(''); var k = [1, .23, 0.12, 929, 8172, 9.2, 21.2].map(e => Math.atan2(e, .5));
fast approx. atan2
eval(''); var k = [1, .23, 0.12, 929, 8172, 9.2, 21.2].map(e => fastAtan2(e, .5));
cached Math.atan2
eval(''); var k = [1, .23, 0.12, 929, 8172, 9.2, 21.2].map(e => atan2(e, .5));