Base64

A pretty fast Luau Base64 encoder

Installation

Wally

Add the following to your wally.toml under [dependencies]:

base64 = "reselim/base64@3.0.0"

Manual

Download the latest release from the releases page and drag it into Studio.

Usage

local Base64 = require(path.to.Base64)

local data = buffer.fromstring("Hello, world!")

local encodedData = Base64.encode(data) -- buffer: "SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQ=="
local decodedData = Base64.decode(encodedData) -- buffer: "Hello, world!"

print(buffer.tostring(decodedData)) -- "Hello, world!"

Benchmarks

Benchmarks ran in Roblox Studio with a payload of 100,000,000 characters running on a Ryzen 5900X and 32GB RAM @ 3200MHz, as of 2024/01/11

Native mode OFF:

Encode: 3303.27ms (30,273,037/s)
Decode: 3747.17ms (26,686,826/s)

Native mode ON:

Encode: 461.23ms (216,813,496/s)
Decode: 596.37ms (167,680,012/s)