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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Browser: Firefox 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

sqrt with ** 0.5

56K/s

Math.sqrt

24K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ sqrt with ** 0.5	56,133 Ops/sec
Math.sqrt	24,263 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: