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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 Brave

Browser: Mobile Safari 26

Operating system: iOS 18.7

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one month ago

Exponentiation operator

604.0M/s

Math.pow()

560.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Exponentiation operator	603,955,520 Ops/sec
Math.pow()	560,191,232 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

Math.pow()
Math.pow(a, b);
Exponentiation operator
a ** b;