Mac 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 |
C++ (Clang++)
|
1.871µs | 1.631µs | 3.983µs |
| 2 |
C (Clang)
|
3.033µs | 2.873µs | 3.183µs |
| 3 |
C (GCC)
|
3.226µs | 2.973µs | 5.306µs |
| 4 |
Go
|
3.400µs | 3.000µs | 4.000µs |
| 5 |
PHP
|
4.268µs | 3.881µs | 5.012µs |
| 6 |
C++ (G++)
|
6.160µs | 6.000µs | 7.000µs |
| 7 |
Ruby
|
7.960µs | 7.000µs | 10.000µs |
| 8 |
Rust
|
8.400µs | 7.000µs | 11.000µs |
| 9 |
Python
|
11.800µs | 10.000µs | 19.000µs |
| 10 |
GraalVM
|
14.776µs | 10.830µs | 52.928µs |
| 11 |
JavaScript (Node)
|
66.033µs | 56.729µs | 141.222µs |
| 12 |
Kotlin (Native)
|
105.760µs | 88.023µs | 344.808µs |
| 13 |
Zig
|
121.360µs | 109.000µs | 314.000µs |
| 14 |
JavaScript (Deno)
|
297.644µs | 245.392µs | 1,043.923µs |
| 15 |
Java
|
578.850µs | 221.977µs | 6,188.013µs |
| 16 |
JavaScript (Bun)
|
21,289.807µs | 183.198µs | 526,531.702µs |
| 17 |
Kotlin (JVM)
|
700,122.262µs | 24,394.338µs | 1,994,974.222µs |