Hexadecimal encoding, 20x faster than stdlib.
Compare with standard lib:
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkEncode/16-8 30.7 5.86 -80.91%
BenchmarkEncode/24-8 43.4 17.8 -58.99%
BenchmarkEncode/1024-8 1793 62.8 -96.50%
benchmark old MB/s new MB/s speedup
BenchmarkEncode/16-8 520.44 2732.67 5.25x
BenchmarkEncode/24-8 552.44 1349.15 2.44x
BenchmarkEncode/1024-8 571.10 16298.50 28.54x
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkDecode/32-8 59.8 10.4 -82.61%
BenchmarkDecode/48-8 87.5 35.3 -59.66%
BenchmarkDecode/2048-8 3634 182 -94.99%
benchmark old MB/s new MB/s speedup
BenchmarkDecode/32-8 534.90 3074.74 5.75x
BenchmarkDecode/48-8 548.75 1359.05 2.48x
BenchmarkDecode/2048-8 563.56 11227.56 19.92x