Run results for: DataView vs Uint8Array by bytes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.4 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.4

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Uint8Array by byte

776.5M/s

DataView

759.8M/s

Uint8Array with set

5.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Uint8Array by byte	776,468,032 Ops/sec
DataView	759,847,680 Ops/sec
Uint8Array with set	5,561,306 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);