Mac 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
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All-Time Rankings
| Rank | Language | Average Time | Best Time | Worst Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Go
|
3.040µs | 2.000µs | 18.000µs |
| 2 |
C++ (Clang++)
|
4.497µs | 4.102µs | 5.162µs |
| 3 |
PHP
|
5.135µs | 4.680µs | 7.133µs |
| 4 |
Rust
|
5.160µs | 5.000µs | 6.000µs |
| 5 |
C++ (G++)
|
9.000µs | 8.000µs | 10.000µs |
| 6 |
C (GCC)
|
10.664µs | 10.312µs | 15.263µs |
| 7 |
GraalVM
|
10.759µs | 8.501µs | 13.074µs |
| 8 |
Ruby
|
10.920µs | 10.000µs | 19.000µs |
| 9 |
Python
|
15.720µs | 13.000µs | 61.000µs |
| 10 |
C (Clang)
|
19.918µs | 19.348µs | 20.303µs |
| 11 |
Kotlin (Native)
|
96.170µs | 57.507µs | 903.747µs |
| 12 |
Zig
|
130.360µs | 117.000µs | 218.000µs |
| 13 |
JavaScript (Node)
|
184.424µs | 56.228µs | 3,152.400µs |
| 14 |
JavaScript (Bun)
|
270.190µs | 181.680µs | 2,112.574µs |
| 15 |
Java
|
1,330.802µs | 343.195µs | 17,126.235µs |
| 16 |
JavaScript (Deno)
|
39,583.462µs | 247.207µs | 981,536.780µs |
| 17 |
Kotlin (JVM)
|
486,384.869µs | 20,890.345µs | 1,689,631.788µs |