Run results for: DataView vs Uint8Array by bytes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Browser: Firefox 128

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Uint8Array by byte

370.3M/s

DataView

366.2M/s

Uint8Array with set

147K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Uint8Array by byte	370,310,752 Ops/sec
DataView	366,230,592 Ops/sec
Uint8Array with set	147,500 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var size = 0xFF;
var buf = new ArrayBuffer(size);
var view = new DataView(buf);
var byte = new Uint8Array(buf);

var data = [];

for (let i = 0; i < size; i++) {
	data[i] = 100*Math.random();
}

Tests:

DataView
for (let i; i < size; i++) { view.setUint8(i, data[i]); }
Uint8Array by byte
for (let i; i < size; i++) { byte[i] = data[i]; }
Uint8Array with set
byte.set(data, 0);