Run results for: Math.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/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 137

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

x * x

31K/s

Math.pow

17K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ x * x	31,355 Ops/sec
Math.pow	16,782 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: