Note that not many Intel processors support the two specific CPU instructions used (vpermb and vpmultishiftqb).
Cannon Lake Core i3 (not many of these around due to delays with intel's 10nm fabrication)
Ice Lake Core i3, i5 and i7: Released in September 2019
Honestly, base64 has always been pretty fast for me, even large bitmaps >100kb. Compared to net latency it may be imperceptible to end user. But it still makes a terrific reference paper!
> In economics, a commodity is an economic good or service that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.
Basically it's a common good, that is sold and purchased, with no other modifications required for this use-case. This commodity is currently low in supply, but is still a commodity.
I think hard drives, memory, power supplies are much closer to being fungible.