Run results for: base64 vs json.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0

Browser: Firefox 125

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

base64 short string

19.2M/s

json short string

12.1M/s

json long string

1.0M/s

base64 long string

640K/s

View exact numbers

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: