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/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

DataView

57.4M/s

Uint8Array by byte

56.3M/s

Uint8Array with set

2.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ DataView	57,438,140 Ops/sec
Uint8Array by byte	56,288,312 Ops/sec
Uint8Array with set	2,189,404 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);