Run results for: Math.hypot vs Math.sqrt

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/147.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 147

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

Math.sqrt

1K/s

Math.hypot

211/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Math.sqrt	1,336 Ops/sec
Math.hypot	211 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function testHypot() {
  for (let i=0; i < 1000; i++){
    for (let j=0; j < 1000; j++) {
      Math.hypot(i, j)
    }
  }
}
function testSqrt() {
  for (let i=0; i < 1000; i++){
    for (let j=0; j < 1000; j++) {
      Math.sqrt(i*i+j*j)
    }
  }
}

Tests:

Math.hypot
testHypot()
Math.sqrt
testSqrt()

Run results for: Math.hypot vs Math.sqrt

Is Math.hypot actually faster than Math.sqrt?

Math.hypot

Math.sqrt