VA Wrapper: base64 support

[marten]

I just looked around for interesting dlls and I found the base of GTK+ (GNOME): glib is a pretty interesting one: its written in C and is available under Windows, Linux, Solaris ... everywhere GNOME is available.

One of the features within the glib is base64 support - which is perhaps known from MIME standard and EMan. I just wrote a wrapper for the base64 API calls within the glib and wrote a C wrapper around that to get rid of the cdecl problems. It was just a project to get a feeling how fast it is ... against EMan or the AbtBase64Coder class.

The result (just as an information) are: 594ms (for 600k binary stream and AbtBase64Coder) against 32ms - 47ms (using GLib).

The library is just for fun, but it seems to work and is very fast - and the glib offers many nice things ... you may download the code from my site and start play around with it.

Marten

[tc]

Sounds cool

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[marten]

Sounds cool

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Not to make people dream. The glib has more than 1000 APi calls ... and the base64 related APIs are just 6 of them ... but other people may look into this library and find nice things like: hash tables, trees, unicode support, timers ...