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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Run details:
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
17 days ago
Test name Executions per second
multiplication operator 172191280.0 Ops/sec
exponentiation operator 172200288.0 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • multiplication operator

  • exponentiation operator