Benchmark: TextDecoder vs String.fromCharCode

Script Preparation code:

var bytes = [84,104,105,115,32,105,115,32,97,32,115,97,109,112,108,101,32,112,97,114,97,103,114,97,112,104,46];
var bufferArray = new Uint16Array(bytes);
var decoder = new TextDecoder(); // default 'utf-8' or 'utf8'

Tests:

String.fromCharCode
String.fromCharCode.apply(null, bufferArray);
TextDecoder
decoder.decode(bufferArray);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
String.fromCharCode
TextDecoder

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Run details: (Test run date: 5 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 124 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
String.fromCharCode	2435982.0 Ops/sec
TextDecoder	4832476.0 Ops/sec

TextDecoder vs String.fromCharCode (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: String.fromCharCode vs TextDecoder

Created: 3 years ago by: Guest

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String.fromCharCode

TextDecoder

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A