Run results for: base64 vs json.stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:143.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/143.0

Browser: Firefox 143

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

base64 short string

7.5M/s

json short string

4.5M/s

json long string

451K/s

base64 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: