I use Base64 encoding a lot and the slow implementation is hurting a lot. It's slower than Sun misc encoder/decoder and that one is very very slow. I was using Sun's implementation a bit and it took 80 seconds to encode a 56 MB file. Then I found this: http://migbase64.sourceforge.net/ It loaded from a disk drive and encoded the same file in 0.3 seconds! Would it be possible to have Clojure contrib use an implementation like this and thus enable all Clojure developers to have lightning fast Base64 encoding/decoding? I know having everything implemented in clojure is a big thing around here but in case of Base64 encoding and regular expressions I think the language would benefit greatly by having implementations which are orders of magnitude faster than default implementations in java. Did I say regular expressions? http://www.tusker.org/regex/regex_benchmark.html Like Rich Hickey said: why should we reinvent file streams and sockets in each language? I think the same principle applies to Base64 and regular expressions, especially when in Clojure we have an opportunity to replace standard java implementations with ones that are orders of magnitude faster. What are your views on this?
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