Performance degradation of Buffer allocation in NodeJS v24

[damanis]

Version

v24.13.0

Platform

Linux ubuntu24 6.14.0-37-generic #37~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov 20 10:25:38 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

console.log(process.version);
let table = [], count = 1e6;
for (let chunk_size of [10, 20, 50, 100, 200].map(v=>v*1024))
{
    let ts = Date.now();
    for (let i = 0; i<count; i++)
        Buffer.allocUnsafe(chunk_size);
    let te = Date.now();
    table.push({chunk_size, ms: te-ts});
}
console.table(table, ['chunk_size', 'ms']);

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

Every time

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

Buffer allocation in NodeJS v24 should be same or better than in v20.

What do you see instead?

Degradation depended on chunk size:

v20.12.1
┌─────────┬────────────┬──────┐
│ (index) │ chunk_size │ ms   │
├─────────┼────────────┼──────┤
│ 0       │ 10240      │ 1044 │
│ 1       │ 20480      │ 1110 │
│ 2       │ 51200      │ 1230 │
│ 3       │ 102400     │ 1339 │
│ 4       │ 204800     │ 1969 │
└─────────┴────────────┴──────┘


v24.13.0
┌─────────┬────────────┬──────┐
│ (index) │ chunk_size │ ms   │
├─────────┼────────────┼──────┤
│ 0       │ 10240      │ 996  │
│ 1       │ 20480      │ 1223 │
│ 2       │ 51200      │ 1387 │
│ 3       │ 102400     │ 2077 │
│ 4       │ 204800     │ 3349 │
└─────────┴────────────┴──────┘

Additional information

No response