JavaScript Binary Data Using TypedArrays
Example
TypedArrays are a set of types providing different views into fixed-length mutable binary ArrayBuffers. For the most part, they act like Arrays that coerce all assigned values to a given numeric type. You can pass an ArrayBuffer instance to a TypedArray constructor to create a new view of its data.
var buffer = new ArrayBuffer(8);
var byteView = new Uint8Array(buffer);
var floatView = new Float64Array(buffer);
console.log(byteView); // [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
console.log(floatView); // [0]
byteView[0] = 0x01;
byteView[1] = 0x02;
byteView[2] = 0x04;
byteView[3] = 0x08;
console.log(floatView); // [6.64421383e-316]
ArrayBuffers can be copied using the .slice(...) method, either directly or through a TypedArray view.
var byteView2 = byteView.slice();
var floatView2 = new Float64Array(byteView2.buffer);
byteView2[6] = 0xFF;
console.log(floatView); // [6.64421383e-316]
console.log(floatView2); // [7.06327456e-304]
