alt Hacker Newshttps://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/7208125 v8 changed yesterday to avoid the temp buffer which will likely double the base64 decode speed.
Looks like this was brought up there as a result of this article too, which is neat! And helpful since I was just messing with a node script that is heavily decoding base64
I like commits like this. Removes unnecessary work, easy to understand optimization, 40 lines gone 32 added so net smaller codebase, which usually means easier to maintain. Has ample comments and even uses one of my favorite tricks to do a ceiling function.