buffer: default to UTF8 in byteLength()

If an undefined encoding is passed to byteLength(),
assume that it is UTF8 immediately. This yields a
small speedup, as it prevents string operations on
the encoding argument.

PR-URL: #4010
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <[email protected]>

Author: tomgco

lib/buffer.js

@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ function byteLength(string, encoding) {
 
       case 'utf8':
       case 'utf-8':
+      case undefined:
         return binding.byteLengthUtf8(string);
 
       case 'ucs2':