Run results for: Math.pow vs ** vs * forcing floats vs bigint

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Test name

Executions per second

✓ pow int

151,516,864 Ops/sec

* float

130,819,520 Ops/sec

** int

124,249,296 Ops/sec

** float

121,614,648 Ops/sec

* int

119,102,904 Ops/sec

* bigint

111,259,632 Ops/sec

pow float

103,902,560 Ops/sec

** bigint

4,712,638 Ops/sec

Tests:

pow int
var tmp = Math.pow(6, 21);
** int
var tmp = 6 ** 21;
* int
var tmp = 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 * 6;
pow float
var tmp = Math.pow(6.1, 21.1);
** float
var tmp = 6.1 ** 21.1;
* float
var tmp = 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1 * 6.1;
** bigint
var tmp = 6n ** 21n;
* bigint
var tmp = 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n * 6n;