Run results for: base64 vs json.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 128

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

json short string

7.4M/s

base64 short string

4.6M/s

base64 long string

361K/s

json long string

297K/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: