Benchmark: UTF-8 byte length Arabic 4-mthods

Script Preparation code:

var arabic_str = "kksldfnjeoliwkfmirewogbregiojrmfikrefnهنصتةبهنمخصةبهخصثةبثصهنخقلةثقملىثقمةلكمسقنلمنكقةلمنيبةىلميبنكلكمطسيوبصثقنلحخثقتلثقنلوسيكملنسيكملklrmglkedrmg;ler,g;lkerdmglkermg;ler,g;lerkmglkerglk;ermg;lermg;hjfbwefseoifnuiwefصثعىبصثبىهصثىةبخهمصقاىلثخقتلةحخثقلةثقلةثقلةثقلةثخقلةحخثقلةخقثلةثحخقلةثينقىلنمقثيىلنمقىلمنيثقسىلقىلمقىلنمكقىلمنقىلمنيثقىلمنقىلمنقثىيةلمنخىثيقمنلةيمنلتىنثتقيىلخهمثقيةلخمثقيىلثقفيىلنثقيةلمنخىفقثيلىىىتنعصثىبمخنثةصبحةثصقخمبىثقخمنهلىةثحكقةلكحثقةلمنثقىلمنثقىلكمثةقلكمثقةلمنىثقلمنىثقلمنىثقلنمكثىقلنمكثقىلمنثيقىلمطنثقىلمنطثقىةسلبثمكسقيلةثطقكةلونطحكصثقنلخحثقةلحكخمقفةاقفهىاقفاىقفةلحخثقهخابهقعثالخهثقتلخهثقالخهاثقهعلخباثقحهخبةصحخثجؤوخحجصسثؤوحخصثرةىخهمثقيلىرخهمثقلىخهثقمللاخهثمقلتحخثقتلبحخصثتبحخصثستىبخهمثقىلخهمنثقىلحخثقىلحثقىلخهمنثقصىلثقةلحخثقىلمخهنثيقىلمصثويبجحصضثنيحخصثتبهختثصقخهلبةثقهنخلمةثقيرنمهىيؤنتءراىهخثقةرثقمرةثقيمخهنلىخهثقنلىخهمثقهتل"
var english_str = "UTF-8 encodes each of the 1,112,064 valid code points in the Unicode code space (1,114,112 code points minus 2,048 surrogate code points) using one to four 8-bit bytes (a group of 8 bits is known as an «octet» in the Unicode Standard). Code points wi"

function lengthInUtf8Bytes(str) {
  // Matches only the 10.. bytes that are non-initial characters in a multi-byte sequence.
  var m = encodeURIComponent(str).match(/%[89ABab]/g);
  return str.length + (m ? m.length : 0);
}


function byteLength(str) {
  // returns the byte length of an utf8 string
  var s = str.length;
  for (var i=str.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
    var code = str.charCodeAt(i);
    if (code > 0x7f && code <= 0x7ff) s++;
    else if (code > 0x7ff && code <= 0xffff) s+=2;
  }
  return s;
}

function byteLengthTextEncoder(str) {
  return (new TextEncoder().encode(str)).length;
}

function byteLengthBlob(str) {
  return new Blob([str]).size;
}

Tests:

with a loop Arabic
byteLength(arabic_str);
with a regex Arabic
lengthInUtf8Bytes(arabic_str);
with a TextEncoder ِِArabic
byteLengthTextEncoder(arabic_str)
with a Blob Arabic
byteLengthBlob(arabic_str);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
with a loop Arabic
with a regex Arabic
with a TextEncoder ِِArabic
with a Blob Arabic

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one month ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 133 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
with a loop Arabic	1397361.6 Ops/sec
with a regex Arabic	91756.8 Ops/sec
with a TextEncoder ِِArabic	567086.8 Ops/sec
with a Blob Arabic	19844.5 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 6 months ago):

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Let's break down the provided JSON and explain what's being tested, compared options, pros and cons of those approaches, library usage, special JS features or syntax (if any), and alternatives.

**Benchmark Definition**

The benchmark is testing the byte length calculation of the Arabic string `arabic_str` using different methods:

1. `byteLength(arabic_str);`
2. `lengthInUtf8Bytes(arabic_str);`
3. `byteLengthTextEncoder(arabic_str)`
4. `byteLengthBlob(arabic_str)`

**Options Compared**

The four options being compared are:

1. **Direct byte length calculation using `byteLength` function**: This method uses a simple loop to iterate through the string and calculate the byte length.
2. **Using regular expression with `lengthInUtf8Bytes` function**: This method uses a regex pattern to match non-initial characters in the UTF-8 encoded string, which are likely to be multi-byte sequences.
3. **Using TextEncoder API (`byteLengthTextEncoder` function)**: This method uses the TextEncoder API to encode the string into an array of bytes and then returns the length of that array.
4. **Using Blob object (`byteLengthBlob` function)**: This method creates a new Blob object from the string and returns the size of that blob.

**Pros and Cons**

1. **Direct byte length calculation**: Simple, efficient, but may not accurately handle all UTF-8 edge cases.
2. **Regular expression with `lengthInUtf8Bytes`**: More accurate for handling UTF-8 sequences, but slower due to regex overhead.
3. **TextEncoder API**: Fast and accurate, but requires the TextEncoder API to be supported by the browser.
4. **Blob object**: Simple and fast, but may not accurately handle all encoding scenarios.

**Library Usage**

Only the `TextEncoder` API is being used in this benchmark, which suggests that modern browsers support it.

**Special JS Features or Syntax (None)**

No special JavaScript features or syntax are being used in this benchmark.

**Alternatives**

If you wanted to add more alternatives to the benchmark, some options could be:

1. **Using String.prototype.charCodeAt() method**: This method would calculate the byte length by iterating through each character's Unicode code point.
2. **Using a library like ICU for internationalization and localization**: This would provide a more comprehensive way of handling different encoding scenarios.

However, these alternatives might not be as efficient or accurate as the options already being compared in the benchmark.

Related benchmarks:

UTF-8 byte length Arabic 4-mthods (version: 2)

Comparing performance of: with a loop Arabic vs with a regex Arabic vs with a TextEncoder ِِArabic vs with a Blob Arabic

Created: 4 years ago by: Registered User

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with a loop Arabic

with a regex Arabic

with a TextEncoder ِِArabic

with a Blob Arabic

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 6 months ago):