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+[base64](https://crates.io/crates/base64)
+===
+
+[![](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/base64.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/base64) [![Docs](https://docs.rs/base64/badge.svg)](https://docs.rs/base64) [![Build](https://travis-ci.org/marshallpierce/rust-base64.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/marshallpierce/rust-base64) [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/marshallpierce/rust-base64/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/marshallpierce/rust-base64) [![unsafe forbidden](https://img.shields.io/badge/unsafe-forbidden-success.svg)](https://github.com/rust-secure-code/safety-dance/)
+
+<a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/?from=rust-base64"><img src="/icon_CLion.svg" height="40px"/></a>
+
+Made with CLion. Thanks to JetBrains for supporting open source!
+
+It's base64. What more could anyone want?
+
+This library's goals are to be *correct* and *fast*. It's thoroughly tested and widely used. It exposes functionality at multiple levels of abstraction so you can choose the level of convenience vs performance that you want, e.g. `decode_config_slice` decodes into an existing `&mut [u8]` and is pretty fast (2.6GiB/s for a 3 KiB input), whereas `decode_config` allocates a new `Vec<u8>` and returns it, which might be more convenient in some cases, but is slower (although still fast enough for almost any purpose) at 2.1 GiB/s.
+
+Example
+---
+
+```rust
+extern crate base64;
+
+use base64::{encode, decode};
+
+fn main() {
+ let a = b"hello world";
+ let b = "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=";
+
+ assert_eq!(encode(a), b);
+ assert_eq!(a, &decode(b).unwrap()[..]);
+}
+```
+
+See the [docs](https://docs.rs/base64) for all the details.
+
+Rust version compatibility
+---
+
+The minimum required Rust version is 1.34.0.
+
+Developing
+---
+
+Benchmarks are in `benches/`. Running them requires nightly rust, but `rustup` makes it easy:
+
+```bash
+rustup run nightly cargo bench
+```
+
+Decoding is aided by some pre-calculated tables, which are generated by:
+
+```bash
+cargo run --example make_tables > src/tables.rs.tmp && mv src/tables.rs.tmp src/tables.rs
+```
+
+no_std
+---
+
+This crate supports no_std. By default the crate targets std via the `std` feature. You can deactivate the `default-features` to target core instead. In that case you lose out on all the functionality revolving around `std::io`, `std::error::Error` and heap allocations. There is an additional `alloc` feature that you can activate to bring back the support for heap allocations.
+
+Profiling
+---
+
+On Linux, you can use [perf](https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page) for profiling. Then compile the benchmarks with `rustup nightly run cargo bench --no-run`.
+
+Run the benchmark binary with `perf` (shown here filtering to one particular benchmark, which will make the results easier to read). `perf` is only available to the root user on most systems as it fiddles with event counters in your CPU, so use `sudo`. We need to run the actual benchmark binary, hence the path into `target`. You can see the actual full path with `rustup run nightly cargo bench -v`; it will print out the commands it runs. If you use the exact path that `bench` outputs, make sure you get the one that's for the benchmarks, not the tests. You may also want to `cargo clean` so you have only one `benchmarks-` binary (they tend to accumulate).
+
+```bash
+sudo perf record target/release/deps/benchmarks-* --bench decode_10mib_reuse
+```
+
+Then analyze the results, again with perf:
+
+```bash
+sudo perf annotate -l
+```
+
+You'll see a bunch of interleaved rust source and assembly like this. The section with `lib.rs:327` is telling us that 4.02% of samples saw the `movzbl` aka bit shift as the active instruction. However, this percentage is not as exact as it seems due to a phenomenon called *skid*. Basically, a consequence of how fancy modern CPUs are is that this sort of instruction profiling is inherently inaccurate, especially in branch-heavy code.
+
+```text
+ lib.rs:322 0.70 : 10698: mov %rdi,%rax
+ 2.82 : 1069b: shr $0x38,%rax
+ : if morsel == decode_tables::INVALID_VALUE {
+ : bad_byte_index = input_index;
+ : break;
+ : };
+ : accum = (morsel as u64) << 58;
+ lib.rs:327 4.02 : 1069f: movzbl (%r9,%rax,1),%r15d
+ : // fast loop of 8 bytes at a time
+ : while input_index < length_of_full_chunks {
+ : let mut accum: u64;
+ :
+ : let input_chunk = BigEndian::read_u64(&input_bytes[input_index..(input_index + 8)]);
+ : morsel = decode_table[(input_chunk >> 56) as usize];
+ lib.rs:322 3.68 : 106a4: cmp $0xff,%r15
+ : if morsel == decode_tables::INVALID_VALUE {
+ 0.00 : 106ab: je 1090e <base64::decode_config_buf::hbf68a45fefa299c1+0x46e>
+```
+
+
+Fuzzing
+---
+
+This uses [cargo-fuzz](https://github.com/rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz). See `fuzz/fuzzers` for the available fuzzing scripts. To run, use an invocation like these:
+
+```bash
+cargo +nightly fuzz run roundtrip
+cargo +nightly fuzz run roundtrip_no_pad
+cargo +nightly fuzz run roundtrip_random_config -- -max_len=10240
+cargo +nightly fuzz run decode_random
+```
+
+
+License
+---
+
+This project is dual-licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0.