Run results for: JSON.Stringify / JSON.Parse vs TextEncoder / TextDecoder

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

JSON.Stringify

4.4M/s

JSON.Parse

3.1M/s

Decode

2.7M/s

Encode

985K/s

EncodeInto

0/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.Stringify	4,416,560 Ops/sec
JSON.Parse	3,054,810 Ops/sec
Decode	2,684,371 Ops/sec
Encode	984,917 Ops/sec
EncodeInto	0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var i = 0;
var initialString = "This is the initial Test String";
var encoder = new TextEncoder();
var view = encoder.encode(initialString);
var initialObject = {someString: initialString};
var initialStringify = JSON.stringify(initialObject);

var decoder = new TextDecoder();

Tests:

Encode
var newString = "This is the updated Test String"; var view = encoder.encode(newString); if (i == 5000) console.log(view); i++;
EncodeInto
var newString = "This is the updated Test String"; var view = encoder.encodeInto(newString); if (i == 5000) console.log(view); i++;
JSON.Stringify
var newString = "This is the updated Test String"; var object = {someString: newString}; var stringify = JSON.stringify(object); if (i == 5000) console.log(stringify); i++;
Decode
var decoded = decoder.decode(view); if (i == 5000) console.log(decoded); i++;
JSON.Parse
var parse = JSON.parse(initialStringify) if (i == 5000) console.log(parse);