Run results for: base64 vs json.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_13) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.5787.221 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 114

Operating system: Mac OS X 11.13

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

base64 short string

14.2M/s

json short string

4.5M/s

json long string

230K/s

base64 long string

164K/s

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Script Preparation code:

var dataShort = rand();
var dataLong = Array.from({ length: 100 }, rand).join("\n");
function rand() {
  return Math.random().toString(36);
}

Tests: