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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0

Browser: Firefox 139

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

x*x

31K/s

sqrt with Math.pow

13K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ x*x	30,762 Ops/sec
sqrt with Math.pow	13,279 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: