pybase64 0.1.2

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 10.12.6 on an Intel Core i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz

0.1.2 (C extension active)
bench: altchars=None, validate=False
pybase64._pybase64.b64encode:     3203.816 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
pybase64._pybase64.b64decode:      322.261 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64encode:                  539.713 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64decode:                  321.367 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
bench: altchars=None, validate=True
pybase64._pybase64.b64encode:     3119.150 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
pybase64._pybase64.b64decode:     4389.709 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64encode:                  585.207 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64decode:                  101.803 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
bench: altchars=b'-_', validate=False
pybase64._pybase64.b64encode:     2298.564 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
pybase64._pybase64.b64decode:      276.244 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64encode:                  313.476 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64decode:                  229.085 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
bench: altchars=b'-_', validate=True
pybase64._pybase64.b64encode:     2379.698 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
pybase64._pybase64.b64decode:     2862.796 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64encode:                  315.344 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)
base64.b64decode:                   91.621 MB/s (13,271,472 bytes)