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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Math.pow

51K/s

x * x

42K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Math.pow	51,258 Ops/sec
x * x	42,142 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: