Remove a lot of branches from the inner loop. Speeds up buf.toString('base64')
by about 20%.
Before:
$ time out/Release/node benchmark/buffer-base64-encode.js
real 0m6.607s
user 0m5.508s
sys 0m1.088s
After:
$ time out/Release/node benchmark/buffer-base64-encode.js
real 0m5.520s
user 0m4.520s
sys 0m0.992s