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
|
2.671µs | 1.553µs | 3.777µs |
| 2 |
GraalVM
|
4.163µs | 3.446µs | 5.210µs |
| 3 |
PHP
|
5.584µs | 4.017µs | 26.390µs |
| 4 |
C++ (G++)
|
9.228µs | 7.665µs | 13.356µs |
| 5 |
Rust
|
10.065µs | 7.995µs | 12.364µs |
| 6 |
Ruby
|
10.177µs | 7.735µs | 27.142µs |
| 7 |
Python
|
10.424µs | 8.656µs | 22.022µs |
| 8 |
C++ (Clang++)
|
12.267µs | 10.200µs | 26.821µs |
| 9 |
C (GCC)
|
16.681µs | 14.087µs | 32.431µs |
| 10 |
C (Clang)
|
19.679µs | 16.963µs | 23.535µs |
| 11 |
Zig
|
170.742µs | 154.762µs | 201.671µs |
| 12 |
JavaScript (Bun)
|
740.120µs | 190.461µs | 13,036.827µs |
| 13 |
Java
|
834.583µs | 276.665µs | 13,574.488µs |
| 14 |
Kotlin (Native)
|
1,541.621µs | 737.089µs | 6,135.515µs |
| 15 |
JavaScript (Node)
|
3,307.477µs | 53.170µs | 52,954.441µs |
| 16 |
JavaScript (Deno)
|
5,762.163µs | 237.261µs | 66,613.594µs |
| 17 |
Kotlin (JVM)
|
713,281.867µs | 488,755.674µs | 1,044,212.674µs |