Blue color from RGBA

Extract the Blue channel from a stream of RGBA pixels as fast as possible.

Input: 125 000 000 pixels in binary RGBA format on STDIN (4 bytes per pixel: R, G, B, A).

Output: Write only the Blue byte of each pixel to STDOUT (125 000 000 bytes total).

Restrictions:30s256Mb 1 Score Packages

Feel free to create an issue if you need an extra library from the standard Ubuntu repository.

Name	Version	Description
libc6-dev	2.39-0ubuntu8.7	GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile and link programs which use the standard C library.
libclang-common-14-dev	1:14.0.6-19build4	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-15-dev	1:15.0.7-14build3	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-16-dev	1:16.0.6-23ubuntu4	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-17-dev	1:17.0.6-9ubuntu1	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-18-dev	1:18.1.3-1ubuntu1	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-19-dev	1:19.1.1-1ubuntu1~24.04.2	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-20-dev	1:20.1.2-0ubuntu1~24.04.2	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libcrypt-dev	1:4.4.36-4build1	libcrypt development files This package contains the files needed for developing applications that use libcrypt.
libgcc-10-dev	10.5.0-4ubuntu2.1	GCC support library (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C programs which use libgcc, libgomp, libquadmath, libssp or libitm.
libgcc-11-dev	11.5.0-1ubuntu1~24.04.1	GCC support library (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C programs which use libgcc, libgomp, libquadmath, libssp or libitm.
libgcc-12-dev	12.4.0-2ubuntu1~24.04.1	GCC support library (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C programs which use libgcc, libgomp, libquadmath, libssp or libitm.
libgcc-13-dev	13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1	GCC support library (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C programs which use libgcc, libgomp, libquadmath, libssp or libitm.
libgcc-14-dev	14.2.0-4ubuntu2~24.04.1	GCC support library (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C programs which use libgcc, libgomp, libquadmath, libssp or libitm.
libobjc-13-dev	13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1	Runtime library for GNU Objective-C applications (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files needed to build GNU ObjC applications.
libssl-dev	3.0.13-0ubuntu3.9	Secure Sockets Layer toolkit - development files This package is part of the OpenSSL project's implementation of the SSL and TLS cryptographic protocols for secure communication over the Internet. . It contains development libraries, header files, and manpages for libssl and libcrypto.
libstdc++-10-dev	10.5.0-4ubuntu2.1	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. . libstdc++-v3 is a complete rewrite from the previous libstdc++-v2, which was included up to g++-2.95. The first version of libstdc++-v3 appeared in g++-3.0.
libstdc++-11-dev	11.5.0-1ubuntu1~24.04.1	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. . libstdc++-v3 is a complete rewrite from the previous libstdc++-v2, which was included up to g++-2.95. The first version of libstdc++-v3 appeared in g++-3.0.
libstdc++-12-dev	12.4.0-2ubuntu1~24.04.1	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. . libstdc++-v3 is a complete rewrite from the previous libstdc++-v2, which was included up to g++-2.95. The first version of libstdc++-v3 appeared in g++-3.0.
libstdc++-13-dev	13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. . libstdc++-v3 is a complete rewrite from the previous libstdc++-v2, which was included up to g++-2.95. The first version of libstdc++-v3 appeared in g++-3.0.
libstdc++-14-dev	14.2.0-4ubuntu2~24.04.1	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. . libstdc++-v3 is a complete rewrite from the previous libstdc++-v2, which was included up to g++-2.95. The first version of libstdc++-v3 appeared in g++-3.0.
libtbb-dev	2021.11.0-2ubuntu2	parallelism library for C++ - development files TBB is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert. It represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanism for performance and scalability. . (Note: if you are a user of the i386 architecture, i.e., 32-bit Intel or compatible hardware, this package only supports Pentium4-compatible and higher processors.) . This package includes the TBB development files.

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#	Date	Score	Wall Time	CPU User	CPU System	Memory
1	Apr 7, 2026 05:34	3,904	83,793,765	30,804,000	23,848,000	126,009,344
2	Apr 7, 2026 05:34	3,911	80,022,224	33,845,000	20,904,000	126,160,896
3	Apr 7, 2026 05:34	3,915	77,095,076	27,904,000	26,907,000	126,271,488
4	Apr 7, 2026 05:34	3,916	82,413,482	31,901,000	22,929,000	126,164,992
5	Apr 7, 2026 05:34	3,920	78,255,074	29,931,000	24,943,000	126,160,896
6	Apr 7, 2026 05:34	3,928	75,046,982	30,994,000	23,995,000	126,271,488
7	Apr 7, 2026 05:34	3,931	76,585,305	29,019,000	26,017,000	126,173,184
8	Apr 7, 2026 05:42	3,932	80,471,290	34,028,000	21,017,000	126,271,488
9	Apr 7, 2026 05:34	3,933	75,670,808	32,034,000	23,024,000	126,173,184
10	Apr 7, 2026 05:42	3,937	76,761,181	27,059,000	28,061,000	126,169,088
11	Apr 7, 2026 05:42	3,948	77,541,903	31,153,000	24,118,000	126,279,680
12	Apr 7, 2026 05:34	3,950	84,214,501	33,184,000	22,122,000	126,169,088
13	Apr 8, 2026 01:15	3,970	83,074,444	31,757,000	23,817,000	126,201,856
14	Apr 8, 2026 01:15	3,974	86,454,773	30,802,000	24,840,000	126,009,344
15	Apr 8, 2026 01:17	3,986	79,885,044	29,898,000	25,911,000	126,271,488
16	Apr 8, 2026 01:17	4,002	77,205,744	37,022,000	19,011,000	126,271,488
17	Apr 8, 2026 01:17	4,003	83,367,285	33,025,000	23,017,000	126,107,648
18	Apr 8, 2026 01:15	4,009	77,795,681	34,073,000	22,047,000	126,103,552
19	Apr 7, 2026 05:06	4,519	87,298,193	31,129,000	32,133,000	126,271,488
20	Apr 7, 2026 05:06	4,553	95,323,497	33,862,000	29,879,000	126,164,992
21	Apr 7, 2026 05:06	4,559	87,194,946	33,910,000	29,921,000	126,009,344

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