Run results for: DataView vs Uint8Array by bytes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 138

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

DataView

96.8M/s

Uint8Array by byte

95.6M/s

Uint8Array with set

1.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ DataView	96,797,336 Ops/sec
Uint8Array by byte	95,573,232 Ops/sec
Uint8Array with set	1,625,429 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);