C accelerator for Base32 character encoding
Proposal:
The base64 module contains implementations of encoders/decoders for several character encodings.
Among these are the base32 and base32hex encodings mentioned in RFC 4648.
These are currently implemented in pure Python. Implementing them in C will greatly improve performance (~100x) and memory usage.
I have written a draft PR that accomplishes this, and will be submitting it shortly.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
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Links to previous discussion of this feature:
Suggested by @serhiy-storchaka in #102753.