v2.14.0

What's Changed

This is a performance release of protobuf-es. We've made substantial improvements to the runtime, while also reducing bundle size by 5%. Here are the results from our benchmarks (compared against v2.13.0):

fixture	toBinary	fromBinary	toJson	fromJson
general	4.66x	1.46x	2.29x	1.67x
scalar	2.91x	1.96x	1.74x	1.64x
repeated-scalar	4.37x	1.53x	3.06x	1.65x
map-scalar	4.43x	1.44x	2.42x	2.28x
repeated-message	5.27x	1.89x	1.71x	1.63x
map-message	5.21x	1.95x	1.81x	1.66x
user-tiny	1.44x	1.99x	1.49x	1.50x
user-normal	5.24x	1.99x	2.33x	2.03x

Individual changes are below:

• Add benchmarks by @ajeetdsouza in #1474
• Optimize BinaryWriter with a growable buffer by @jlucaso1 in #1108
• Use Set to check for WKTs by @ajeetdsouza in #1475
• Cache DataView in BinaryWriter by @ajeetdsouza in #1483
• Use native String.prototype.isWellFormed() when available by @ajeetdsouza in #1479
• Drop support for Node.js 20 by @timostamm in #1488
• Use native toBase64 / fromBase64 when available by @ajeetdsouza in #1477
• Avoid allocations in varint64 by @ajeetdsouza in #1498
• Compile descriptors to closure trees by @ajeetdsouza in #1491
• Reserve bytes for lenPrefix in strings / fork-join by @ajeetdsouza in #1490
• Fix byte size estimate in base64 fallback by @ajeetdsouza in #1504
• Define descriptor toString instead of assigning it by @ltrouton in #1507
• Use setFromBase64 instead of fromBase64 by @ajeetdsouza in #1508
• Compile and cache create() function by @ajeetdsouza in #1499
• Add ASCII fast paths by @ajeetdsouza in #1509

New Contributors

• @anuraaga made their first contribution in #1478
• @jlucaso1 made their first contribution in #1108
• @ltrouton made their first contribution in #1507

Full Changelog: v2.13.0...v2.14.0