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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 136

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

sqrt with Math.pow

43K/s

Math.sqrt

34K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ sqrt with Math.pow	42,981 Ops/sec
Math.sqrt	33,501 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: