Run results for: base64 vs json.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

base64 short string

17.0M/s

json short string

11.0M/s

json long string

808K/s

base64 long string

313K/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: