Comment on Why did base64 win against uuencode?parentComments−cratermoon2yuuencode has some additional overhead, namely 2 additional bytes per line, that means it varies from 60-70%, the latter being best case, while base64 is 75% efficient in all cases.
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uuencode has some additional overhead, namely 2 additional bytes per line, that means it varies from 60-70%, the latter being best case, while base64 is 75% efficient in all cases.