I'm looking for a modern JavaScript implementation of CRC32.
This implementation, which may have originated from here, and is now here, there and everywhere, is unacceptable because it's slow (500ms/MB), and depends on over 2KB of space delimited table, accessed using substr. Yuck!
There appears to be a few variations of CRC32, so I need to match this output:
mysql> SELECT CRC32('abcde'); > 2240272485
Function doesn't actually need to accept a string however, since I'm working with byte arrays.
CRC32 is an error-detecting function that uses a CRC32 algorithm to detect changes between source and target data. The CRC32 function converts a variable-length string into an 8-character string that is a text representation of the hexadecimal value of a 32 bit-binary sequence.
The crc32() function calculates a 32-bit CRC (cyclic redundancy checksum) for a string. This function can be used to validate data integrity. Tip: To ensure that you get the correct string representation from the crc32() function, you'll need to use the %u formatter of the printf() or sprintf() function.
I added a helper function to create the CRCTable instead of having this enormous literal in the code. It could also be used to create the table once and save it in an object or variable and have the crc32 function use that (or as W3C's example, check for the existence and create if necessary). I also updated the jsPerf to compare using a CRCtable with the literal string, literal array, saved window variable and dynamic pointer (the example shown here).
var makeCRCTable = function(){ var c; var crcTable = []; for(var n =0; n < 256; n++){ c = n; for(var k =0; k < 8; k++){ c = ((c&1) ? (0xEDB88320 ^ (c >>> 1)) : (c >>> 1)); } crcTable[n] = c; } return crcTable; } var crc32 = function(str) { var crcTable = window.crcTable || (window.crcTable = makeCRCTable()); var crc = 0 ^ (-1); for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++ ) { crc = (crc >>> 8) ^ crcTable[(crc ^ str.charCodeAt(i)) & 0xFF]; } return (crc ^ (-1)) >>> 0; };
Here's a link to the performance difference: http://jsperf.com/js-crc32
Well here's my ameatur shot at this. I figured reading off an array is faster than substringing it.
Warning though, I forwent the use of the Utf8Encode function in these examples to simplify the tests. After all, these are just examples and pretty rough ones at that.
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