Run results for: DataView vs Uint32Array debunking myth

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Uint32

11.3M/s

DataView

1K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Uint32	11,324,117 Ops/sec
DataView	1,206 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var size = 4 * 4096;
var buf = new ArrayBuffer(size);
var view = new DataView(buf);
var byte = new Uint32Array(buf);

var data = [];

for (let i = 0; i < size; i++) {
	data[i] = 100*Math.random();
}

Tests:

DataView
for (let i = 0; i < size / 4; ++i) { view.setUint32(i, data[i]); }
Uint32
for (let i; i < size / 4; ++i) { byte[i] = data[i]; }