Wunkolo / base85

An implementation of base85 encoding, which is more space-efficient than base64

base85

An implementation of base85 ascii encoding modeled after the gnu coreutils.

base85 - Wunkolo <[e-mail]>
Usage: base85 [Options]... [File]
       base85 --decode [Options]... [File]
Options:
  -h, --help            Display this help/usage information
  -d, --decode          Decodes incoming base85 into binary bytes
  -i, --ignore-garbage  When decoding, ignores non-base85 characters
  -w, --wrap=Columns    Wrap encoded base85 output within columns
                        Default is `76`. `0` Disables linewrapping

% inxi -C
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-6100 bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           Speed: 3700 MHz min/max: 800/3700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3700 2: 3700 3: 3700 4: 3700 

% cat /dev/zero | ./base85 --wrap=0 | pv > /dev/null
4.38GiB 0:00:10 [ 455MiB/s]

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Todo:

• Implement all base85 variant options
  • bota
  • Adobe
  • Ascii85
  • RFC-1924
• Add SIMD-vectorizations for each variant
  • x86(SSE to AVX512)
  • ARM(NEON)