Run results for: TextDecoder vs Js

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/134.0.6998.99 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 134

Operating system: iOS 18.3.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
decodeNative	4998054.5 Ops/sec
decodeCharCode	2663638.8 Ops/sec
decoderJs	4699381.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = new Uint8Array([97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 97, 98, 99])
var decoder = new TextDecoder();
function decodeNative(arr) {
  return decoder.decode(arr);
}
function decodeCharCode(arr) {
  return String.fromCharCode.apply(null, arr);
}
function decoderJs(buffer) {
  var start = 0;
  var end = buffer.byteLength;

  if (end - start < 1) {
    return "";
  }

  var str = "";
  for (var i = start; i < end;) {
    var t = buffer[i++];

    if (t <= 0x7F) {
      str += String.fromCharCode(t);
    } else if (t >= 0xC0 && t < 0xE0) {
      str += String.fromCharCode((t & 0x1F) << 6 | buffer[i++] & 0x3F);
    } else if (t >= 0xE0 && t < 0xF0) {
      str += String.fromCharCode((t & 0xF) << 12 | (buffer[i++] & 0x3F) << 6 | buffer[i++] & 0x3F);
    } else if (t >= 0xF0) {
      var t2 = ((t & 7) << 18 | (buffer[i++] & 0x3F) << 12 | (buffer[i++] & 0x3F) << 6 | buffer[i++] & 0x3F) - 0x10000;
      str += String.fromCharCode(0xD800 + (t2 >> 10));
      str += String.fromCharCode(0xDC00 + (t2 & 0x3FF));
    }
  }
  return str;
}

Tests:

decodeNative
decodeNative(arr)
decodeCharCode
decodeCharCode(arr)
decoderJs
decoderJs(arr)