Benchmark: json stringify vs array tostring base64

Script Preparation code:

function moreData(arr, left) {
  if(left === 0) return arr;
  else {
    arr.push(Math.floor(Math.random() * 256));
  	return moreData(arr, left - 1);
  }
}
function makeTestData() { return moreData([], 4); }

Tests:

to base64 string
makeTestData().toString("base64")
json stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
to base64 string
json stringify

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.82 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 93 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
to base64 string	457676.7 Ops/sec
json stringify	439682.2 Ops/sec

json stringify vs array tostring base64 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: to base64 string vs json stringify

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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to base64 string

json stringify

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A