Backport: fix(ai): skip stringifying text when streaming partial text#14200
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## Background #13839 streamText with the default text output called JSON.stringify on the full accumulated text on every single streaming chunk that creates increasingly large string copies per stream casuing memory issues ## Summary - skip `JSON.stringify` when the partial output is already a string - structured outputs still go through stringify as before since they need serialization to compare. - compare the text directly - no extra full-string serialization per chunk ## Manual Verification tried reproducing via <details> <summary>repro</summary> ```ts import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai'; import { streamText } from 'ai'; import { run } from '../../lib/run'; run(async () => { const result = streamText({ model: openai.responses('gpt-4o-mini'), prompt: 'Write an extremely detailed 5000-word essay about the history of computing. Include every detail you can.', }); let chunks = 0; for await (const textPart of result.textStream) { chunks++; if (chunks % 100 === 0) { const mb = (process.memoryUsage().heapUsed / 1024 / 1024).toFixed(1); console.log(`chunk ${chunks} — heap: ${mb}MB`); } } console.log(`\nTotal chunks: ${chunks}`); console.log( `Final heap: ${(process.memoryUsage().heapUsed / 1024 / 1024).toFixed(1)}MB`, ); }); ``` </details> ## Checklist - [x] Tests have been added / updated (for bug fixes / features) - [ ] Documentation has been added / updated (for bug fixes / features) - [x] A _patch_ changeset for relevant packages has been added (for bug fixes / features - run `pnpm changeset` in the project root) - [x] I have reviewed this pull request (self-review) ## Related Issues fixes #13839
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This is an automated backport of #14123 to the release-v6.0 branch. FYI @aayush-kapoor