Run results for: multiplication vs exponentiation

is it more performant to multiply a number by itself manually or use the exponentiation operator '**2'?

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 148
Windows
Desktop
2 months ago
exponentiation operator
172.2M/s
multiplication operator
172.2M/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ exponentiation operator 172,200,288 Ops/sec
multiplication operator 172,191,280 Ops/sec
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