pybase64 0.1.1

Fast Base64 encoding/decoding

Fast Base64 implementation

This project is a wrapper on libbase64.

It aims to provide a fast base64 implementation for standard base64 encoding/decoding.

Current status

Benchmark

Running Python 3.6.0, Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42), Mac OS X 10.12.5 on an Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz

0.1.0 (C extension active)
bench: altchars=None, validate=False
pybase64._pybase64.b64encode:     2819.747 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
pybase64._pybase64.b64decode:      304.039 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64encode:                  560.382 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64decode:                  311.487 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
bench: altchars=None, validate=True
pybase64._pybase64.b64encode:     2950.594 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
pybase64._pybase64.b64decode:     2821.600 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64encode:                  522.495 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64decode:                   99.513 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
bench: altchars=b'-_', validate=False
pybase64._pybase64.b64encode:     2220.323 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
pybase64._pybase64.b64decode:      213.228 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64encode:                  299.008 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64decode:                  210.878 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
bench: altchars=b'-_', validate=True
pybase64._pybase64.b64encode:     2184.876 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
pybase64._pybase64.b64decode:     2095.342 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64encode:                  303.990 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64decode:                   85.267 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)