Run results for: base64 vs json.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/138.0

Browser: Firefox 138

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

base64 short string

12.0M/s

json short string

6.1M/s

json long string

637K/s

base64 long string

403K/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: