Run results for: Math.pow(x,2) vs x*x

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

x*x

386K/s

sqrt with Math.pow

37K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ x*x	385,590 Ops/sec
sqrt with Math.pow	36,559 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: