Run results for: ArrayBuffer

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.75 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 55

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Cached decode	13328.1 Ops/sec
Simple decode	145906.6 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = "aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7aa34a5b6c5acb67acb5acb678acb6ac4b5a6c7b5a4c3b45a67c8b76a54cb34a5c6b7";

var chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";

// Use a lookup table to find the index.
var lookup = new Uint8Array(256);
for (var i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
  lookup[chars.charCodeAt(i)] = i;
}

function decode(base64) {
    var bufferLength = base64.length * 0.75,
    len = base64.length, i, p = 0,
    encoded1, encoded2, encoded3, encoded4;

    if (base64[base64.length - 1] === "=") {
      bufferLength--;
      if (base64[base64.length - 2] === "=") {
        bufferLength--;
      }
    }

    var arraybuffer = new ArrayBuffer(bufferLength),
    bytes = new Uint8Array(arraybuffer);

    for (i = 0; i < len; i+=4) {
      encoded1 = lookup[base64.charCodeAt(i)];
      encoded2 = lookup[base64.charCodeAt(i+1)];
      encoded3 = lookup[base64.charCodeAt(i+2)];
      encoded4 = lookup[base64.charCodeAt(i+3)];

      bytes[p++] = (encoded1 << 2) | (encoded2 >> 4);
      bytes[p++] = ((encoded2 & 15) << 4) | (encoded3 >> 2);
      bytes[p++] = ((encoded3 & 3) << 6) | (encoded4 & 63);
    }

    return arraybuffer;
  };

function _base64ToArrayBuffer(base64) {
    var binary_string =  window.atob(base64);
    var len = binary_string.length;
    var bytes = new Uint8Array( len );
    for (var i = 0; i < len; i++)        {
        bytes[i] = binary_string.charCodeAt(i);
    }
    return bytes.buffer;
}

Tests:

Cached decode
decode(str);
Simple decode
_base64ToArrayBuffer(str);

Run results for: ArrayBuffer

Cached decode

Simple decode