Posted by Sjoerd on 02/19/06 15:22

howachen@gmail.com wrote:
> Currently base64_encode is used. But are there any faster methods?

No. These are some functions used to encode 11 MB of data and the time
they took to do so:

base64_encode: 0.105 sec
urlencode: 0.122 sec
addslashes: 0.114 sec
htmlspecialchars: 0.400 sec
htmlentities: 1.145 sec

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