Run results for: Math.pow() vs exponentiation operator

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 26

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Math.pow()

964.0M/s

Exponentiation operator

899.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Math.pow()	964,003,328 Ops/sec
Exponentiation operator	899,630,272 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = Math.random();
var b = Math.random();

Tests: