Convert anything to string, but Buffer, TypedArray and ArrayBuffer
```
var uint8 = new Uint8Array([0xf0, 0x9f, 0x90]);
Buffer.byteLength(uint8); // should be 3, but returns 11
Buffer.byteLength(uint8.buffer); // should be 3, but return 20
```
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5255
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Several changes:
* Soft-Deprecate Buffer() constructors
* Add `Buffer.from()`, `Buffer.alloc()`, and `Buffer.allocUnsafe()`
* Add `--zero-fill-buffers` command line option
* Add byteOffset and length to `new Buffer(arrayBuffer)` constructor
* buffer.fill('') previously had no effect, now zero-fills
* Update the docs
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4682
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
Make the byteLength work correctly when input is Buffer.
e.g:
```js
// The incomplete unicode string
Buffer.byteLength(new Buffer([0xe4, 0xb8, 0xad, 0xe6, 0x96]))
```
The old output: 9
The new output: 5
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4738
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
common.js needs to be loaded in all tests so that there is checking
for variable leaks and possibly other things. However, it does not
need to be assigned to a variable if nothing in common.js is referred
to elsewhere in the test.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4408
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
As `raw` and `raws` encodings are deprecated for such a long time, and
they both are undocumented, this patch removes the support for those
encodings completely.
Previous discussion: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2829
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2859
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Buffer.byteLength is important for speed because it is called whenever a
new Buffer is created from a string.
This commit optimizes Buffer.byteLength execution by:
- moving base64 length calculation into JS-land, which is now much
faster
- remove redundant code and streamline the UTF8 length calculation
It also adds a benchmark and better tests.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1713
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
