Linux Benchmark: Base64 Encode (x3)
Base64 is an encoding scheme used to encode binary data in an ASCII format. This benchmark measures the time taken to encode three strings to 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
|
2.755µs | 1.553µs | 3.827µs |
| 2 |
PHP
|
4.856µs | 3.918µs | 6.452µs |
| 3 |
GraalVM
|
4.990µs | 3.186µs | 22.512µs |
| 4 |
Ruby
|
8.232µs | 7.454µs | 9.408µs |
| 5 |
C++ (G++)
|
9.635µs | 8.035µs | 11.982µs |
| 6 |
Rust
|
9.646µs | 7.273µs | 16.250µs |
| 7 |
Python
|
10.691µs | 9.067µs | 12.594µs |
| 8 |
C++ (Clang++)
|
11.852µs | 8.997µs | 14.708µs |
| 9 |
C (GCC)
|
14.264µs | 12.984µs | 16.892µs |
| 10 |
C (Clang)
|
19.175µs | 16.852µs | 24.176µs |
| 11 |
JavaScript (Node)
|
60.496µs | 52.168µs | 76.894µs |
| 12 |
JavaScript (Bun)
|
249.760µs | 213.661µs | 287.784µs |
| 13 |
Zig
|
2,489.535µs | 149.230µs | 34,879.778µs |
| 14 |
Java
|
2,791.007µs | 264.517µs | 62,360.781µs |
| 15 |
D
|
3,499.568µs | 43.500µs | 56,491.000µs |
| 16 |
Kotlin (Native)
|
8,995.058µs | 763.343µs | 69,864.982µs |
| 17 |
JavaScript (Deno)
|
9,824.653µs | 232.286µs | 52,441.394µs |
| 18 |
Kotlin (JVM)
|
724,592.482µs | 540,246.131µs | 892,827.128µs |