Linux Benchmark: Base64 Decode (x3)
Base64 is an encoding scheme used to encode binary data in an ASCII format. This benchmark measures the time taken to decode three strings from Base64: “Hello, World!”, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, and “AaBbCcDdEeFf123456_!@#&*^()$=+-“.
string
compression
algorithm
All-Time Rankings
| Rank | Language | Average Time | Best Time | Worst Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Go
|
2.390µs | 1.813µs | 2.945µs |
| 2 |
GraalVM
|
4.218µs | 3.536µs | 5.550µs |
| 3 |
PHP
|
6.240µs | 4.448µs | 33.344µs |
| 4 |
Rust
|
7.174µs | 2.675µs | 10.460µs |
| 5 |
Ruby
|
9.025µs | 7.314µs | 11.272µs |
| 6 |
C++ (G++)
|
12.408µs | 10.781µs | 21.901µs |
| 7 |
Python
|
13.288µs | 9.999µs | 19.447µs |
| 8 |
C++ (Clang++)
|
14.994µs | 11.932µs | 34.545µs |
| 9 |
C (Clang)
|
52.518µs | 45.125µs | 102.825µs |
| 10 |
Zig
|
182.476µs | 160.885µs | 212.394µs |
| 11 |
JavaScript (Node)
|
625.953µs | 53.562µs | 14,140.045µs |
| 12 |
JavaScript (Bun)
|
1,142.260µs | 194.549µs | 14,554.373µs |
| 13 |
C (GCC)
|
2,809.132µs | 25.007µs | 69,543.355µs |
| 14 |
Kotlin (Native)
|
5,601.249µs | 423.831µs | 73,959.507µs |
| 15 |
JavaScript (Deno)
|
9,968.840µs | 243.591µs | 73,669.950µs |
| 16 |
Java
|
12,292.970µs | 397.038µs | 62,146.621µs |
| 17 |
Kotlin (JVM)
|
687,269.168µs | 440,086.686µs | 1,034,278.377µs |