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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"C accelerator for Base32 character encoding","articleBody":"### Proposal:\n\nThe `base64` module contains implementations of encoders/decoders for several character encodings.\n\nAmong these are the base32 and base32hex encodings mentioned in [RFC 4648](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648).\n\nThese are currently implemented in pure Python. Implementing them in C will greatly improve performance (~100x) and memory usage.\n\nI have written a draft PR that accomplishes this, and will be submitting it shortly.\n\n### Has this already been discussed elsewhere?\n\nNo response given\n\n### Links to previous discussion of this feature:\n\nSuggested by @serhiy-storchaka in #102753.\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-146193\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/kangtastic","@type":"Person","name":"kangtastic"},"datePublished":"2026-03-20T07:32:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/146192/cpython/issues/146192"}