How does this affect the B32 code and the common code w B64? Gary
On Feb 18, 2013, at 15:26, Thomas Neidhart <thomas.neidh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/18/2013 08:14 PM, jul...@apache.org wrote: >> Author: julius >> Date: Mon Feb 18 19:14:31 2013 >> New Revision: 1447443 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1447443 >> Log: >> CODEC-166 - Base64 could be faster. >> >> Added: >> >> commons/proper/codec/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/ApacheModifiedMiGBase64.java >> >> commons/proper/codec/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/MiGBase64.original >> Modified: >> commons/proper/codec/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml >> >> commons/proper/codec/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/Base64.java > > I played around with your benchmark, and the main reason Commons Codec > is so slow compared to the other ones is because CC initializes by > default an internal buffer with a fixed size of 8192. > > Adjusting the BaseNCodec.encode(byte[]) / decode(byte[]) methods to > pre-initialize the internal buffer to a better estimate (array.length * > 4 / 3 in the encode case, and array.length * 3 / 4 in the decode case) > results in very similar figures compared to MiGBase and iHarder. > > So I would be in favor of reverting this change and improve the existing > Base64 implementation, I can provide a patch for this. > > Thomas > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org