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		pabs3 on Nov 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed o... I wonder if the authors plan to get this merged into commonly used implementations of base64 so that folks can benefit from their research.

wmu on Nov 6, 2019 [–]

For instance our SSE/AVX2 algorithms have been included in a great, mature library written and maintained by Alfred Klomp: https://github.com/aklomp/base64 (the library includes also vectorized code for ARM CPUs).

pabs3 on Nov 11, 2019 | [–]

Is that library widely used, for example is it used by Firefox or Chromium?

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