Brainfuck interpreter in javascript

I got bored today and decided to make a brainfuck interpreter with javascript. After I was done I did a quick google search to see what other people did for a js solution to compare and constrast however I couldn't find anything with less than 100 lines (to be fair others had more features such as step debugging and config options).

So here I present my rather naive (but small) version in 17 lines of javascript, 328 bytes manually minified.

function bf(code, input){
    var src = "var ptr = 0, inptr = 0, output = '', data = new Uint8Array(30000);",
        op = {
            '>': '++ptr;',
            '<': '--ptr;',
            '+': '++data[ptr];',
            '-': '--data[ptr];',
            '.': 'output += String.fromCharCode(data[ptr]);',
            ',': 'data[ptr] = input.charCodeAt(inptr++)||0;',
            '[': 'while(data[ptr]){',
            ']': '}'
        };
 
    code.split('').map(function(c){ src += op[c] || ''; });
 
    return (new Function('input', src + 'return output;')).call(0, typeof input == 'string' ? input : '');
}
...and some samples...
// hello world
bf('++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.')
// echo input
bf(',[.,]', 'input')
// echo reverse input
bf(',[>,]<[.<]', 'input')
Here's a link to a live sample.

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