From 1164d691501fbc309193a015b393f529a725ea3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Feross Aboukhadijeh <feross@feross.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:46:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] improve Buffer.byteLength(string, encoding)

From https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1441/files
---
 index.js | 26 +++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 46f5a98..bbb7343 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -205,35 +205,31 @@ Buffer.concat = function concat (list, totalLength) {
   return buf
 }
 
-Buffer.byteLength = function byteLength (str, encoding) {
-  var ret
-  str = str + ''
+Buffer.byteLength = function byteLength (string, encoding) {
+  if (typeof string !== 'string') string = String(string)
+
+  if (string.length === 0) return 0
+
   switch (encoding || 'utf8') {
     case 'ascii':
     case 'binary':
     case 'raw':
-      ret = str.length
-      break
+      return string.length
     case 'ucs2':
     case 'ucs-2':
     case 'utf16le':
     case 'utf-16le':
-      ret = str.length * 2
-      break
+      return string.length * 2
     case 'hex':
-      ret = str.length >>> 1
-      break
+      return string.length >>> 1
     case 'utf8':
     case 'utf-8':
-      ret = utf8ToBytes(str).length
-      break
+      return utf8ToBytes(string).length
     case 'base64':
-      ret = base64ToBytes(str).length
-      break
+      return base64ToBytes(string).length
     default:
-      ret = str.length
+      return string.length
   }
-  return ret
 }
 
 // pre-set for values that may exist in the future
-- 
2.34.1