diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d4b64f902f4c5..a4ead9743ecdf 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1829,6 +1829,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "oxc_mangler"
 version = "0.45.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "compact_str",
  "itertools",
  "oxc_allocator",
  "oxc_ast",
diff --git a/crates/oxc_mangler/Cargo.toml b/crates/oxc_mangler/Cargo.toml
index 6532b5a20e635..4fde45906e2c6 100644
--- a/crates/oxc_mangler/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/oxc_mangler/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,5 +27,6 @@ oxc_index = { workspace = true }
 oxc_semantic = { workspace = true }
 oxc_span = { workspace = true }
 
+compact_str = { workspace = true }
 itertools = { workspace = true }
 rustc-hash = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/oxc_mangler/src/lib.rs b/crates/oxc_mangler/src/lib.rs
index 64744ddf22907..9b4b63dd739e9 100644
--- a/crates/oxc_mangler/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/oxc_mangler/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+use compact_str::CompactString;
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use rustc_hash::FxHashSet;
 
@@ -334,18 +335,18 @@ fn base54(n: usize) -> CompactStr {
     // Base 54 at first because these are the usable first characters in JavaScript identifiers
     // <https://tc39.es/ecma262/#prod-IdentifierStart>
     let base = 54usize;
-    let mut ret = String::new();
-    ret.push(BASE54_CHARS[num % base] as char);
+    // SAFETY: `BASE54_CHARS` is utf8.
+    let mut s = unsafe { CompactString::from_utf8_unchecked([BASE54_CHARS[num % base]]) };
     num /= base;
     // Base 64 for the rest because after the first character we can also use 0-9 too
     // <https://tc39.es/ecma262/#prod-IdentifierPart>
     let base = 64usize;
     while num > 0 {
         num -= 1;
-        ret.push(BASE54_CHARS[num % base] as char);
+        s.push(BASE54_CHARS[num % base] as char);
         num /= base;
     }
-    CompactStr::new(&ret)
+    CompactStr::from(s)
 }
 
 fn debug_name(n: usize) -> CompactStr {