const {toByteArray} = require('base64-js'); function base64ToBinary(input) { var chars = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/'; const lookup = new Uint8Array(130); for (var i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) { lookup[chars.charCodeAt(i)] = i; } // Ignore var len = input.length; if (input.charAt(len - 1) === '=') { len--; } if (input.charAt(len - 1) === '=') { len--; } var uarray = new Uint8Array((len / 4) * 3); for (var i = 0, j = 0; i < uarray.length;) { var c1 = lookup[input.charCodeAt(j++)]; var c2 = lookup[input.charCodeAt(j++)]; var c3 = lookup[input.charCodeAt(j++)]; var c4 = lookup[input.charCodeAt(j++)]; uarray[i++] = (c1 << 2) | (c2 >> 4); uarray[i++] = ((c2 & 15) << 4) | (c3 >> 2); uarray[i++] = ((c3 & 3) << 6) | c4; } return uarray.buffer; } var data = new Float32Array(11565); for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) { data[i] = Math.random(); } const str = new Buffer(data.buffer).toString('base64'); // console.log(str); console.time('native'); console.log(new Buffer(str, 'base64')); console.timeEnd('native'); console.time('js'); console.log(base64ToBinary(str).byteLength); console.timeEnd('js'); console.time('base64-js'); console.log(toByteArray(str).buffer.byteLength); console.timeEnd('base64-js'); var result = new Float32Array(base64ToBinary(str)); for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++) { if (result[i] !== data[i]) { console.error('wrong result'); break; } }