title: Which is faster, hex encoding or base64 encoding?
body: <p>I want to send or store a huge binary file, which must be encoded as text.</p>
  
  <p>Which would be the faster encoding method between <code>hex</code> encoding and <code>base64</code> encoding?</p>
  
  <p>The data is around 40 MB or more, which is why the performance matters.</p>