Base62 for Ruby.
This library offers Base62 encoding/decoding using a methodology that is generally compatible with encodings from other
ecosystems. Unfortunately the approach is very inefficient. Just how inefficient is it? Well, here's a comparison
between b3bm, base_x, and Ruby's url-safe Base64 encoder:
$ bundle exec ruby benchmarks/decode.rb
Warming up --------------------------------------
b3bm 105.000 i/100ms
base_x 97.000 i/100ms
base64 40.921k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
b3bm 1.079k (± 6.8%) i/s - 5.460k in 5.089545s
base_x 951.151 (± 4.9%) i/s - 4.753k in 5.010191s
base64 372.882k (±11.9%) i/s - 1.841M in 5.016939s
Comparison:
base64: 372881.6 i/s
b3bm: 1078.9 i/s - 345.61x (± 0.00) slower
base_x: 951.2 i/s - 392.03x (± 0.00) slower
Use b3e if you care about performance more than portability.