Homepage: https://github.com/chaitanyagupta/qbase64
Why qbase64?
Given that a couple of Lisp libraries already exist for working with base64 - cl-base64 and s-base64 - why might you want to pick qbase64? There are two reasons:
- Stream-based APIs - neither of the alternatives provide a (gray) stream implementation where you can write bytes to a binary stream that is automatically encoded to an underlying character stream and vice-versa.
- Performance - qbase64 was written with the objective of being fast while keeping memory consumption independent of the input size. See the Performance section in the README for benchmarks and other details.
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