charCodeAt vs TextEncoder benchmark

charCodeAt_vs_TextEncoder.js

const fs = require ( 'fs' );
const content = fs.readFileSync ( 'War and Peace.md', 'utf-8' );

const charCodesAt = new Array ( content.length );
console.time('charCodeAt');
for ( let i = 0, l = content.length; i < l; i++ ) {
  charCodesAt[i] = content.charCodeAt ( i );
}
console.timeEnd('charCodeAt');

const encoder = new TextEncoder ();
console.time('TextEncoder');
encoder.encode ( content )
console.timeEnd('TextEncoder');

console.log ( content.length );