README.md

Base64C

A faster base64 encoding/decoding library for Python, implemented in C with SSSE3 and VSX optimizations.

Installation

pip install base64c

Usage

from base64c import b64encode, b64decode

print(b64encode(b"Hello, World!"))
print(b64decode(b64encode(b"Hello, World!")))

License

MIT

Performance

• 3-24x faster than the stdlib base64 module.
• Performance increases with input size.
• Tested across different types and sizes of inputs.