Fast Implementation of Base58 encoding
Fast implementation of base58 encoding in Go.
Base algorithm is adapted from https://github.com/trezor/trezor-crypto/blob/master/base58.c
Benchmark
- Trivial - encoding based on big.Int (most libraries use such an implementation)
- Fast - optimized algorithm provided by this module
BenchmarkTrivialBase58Encoding-4 123063 9568 ns/op
BenchmarkFastBase58Encoding-4 690040 1598 ns/op
BenchmarkTrivialBase58Decoding-4 275216 4301 ns/op
BenchmarkFastBase58Decoding-4 1812105 658 ns/op
Encoding - faster by 6 times
Decoding - faster by 6 times
Usage example
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/mr-tron/base58"
)
func main() {
encoded := "1QCaxc8hutpdZ62iKZsn1TCG3nh7uPZojq"
num, err := base58.Decode(encoded)
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Demo %v, got error %s\n", encoded, err)
}
chk := base58.Encode(num)
if encoded == string(chk) {
fmt.Printf ( "Successfully decoded then re-encoded %s\n", encoded )
}
}
