Run results for: TextDecoder vs String.fromCharCode/escape/decodeURIComponent

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.93 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 96

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
decodeURIComponent/apply	280546.1 Ops/sec
decodeURIComponent/spread	162918.2 Ops/sec
TextDecoder	660335.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

data = new Uint8Array([
  208, 158, 208, 177, 208, 188, 208, 176, 208, 189, 209,
  131, 209, 130, 209, 139, 208, 185, 32, 47, 32, 84, 104,
  101, 32, 66, 101, 103, 117, 105, 108, 101, 100, 32, 40,
  49, 57, 55, 49, 41, 32, 66, 68, 82, 105, 112
]);

utf8decoder = new TextDecoder('utf-8', { fatal: true })

Tests:

decodeURIComponent/apply
const result = decodeURIComponent(escape(String.fromCharCode.apply(0, data)));
decodeURIComponent/spread
const result = decodeURIComponent(escape(String.fromCharCode(...data)));
TextDecoder
const result = utf8decoder.decode(data)

Run results for: TextDecoder vs String.fromCharCode/escape/decodeURIComponent

decodeURIComponent/apply

decodeURIComponent/spread

TextDecoder