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/26.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 26

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

x*x

187K/s

sqrt with Math.pow

105K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ x*x	187,224 Ops/sec
sqrt with Math.pow	105,053 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: