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 11, 2026 06:38	3,053	65,880,757	29,819,000	12,921,000	126,267,392
2	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,055	65,305,089	31,833,000	10,942,000	126,267,392
3	Apr 11, 2026 06:36	3,063	61,880,789	30,918,000	11,968,000	126,267,392
4	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,065	69,775,523	31,933,000	10,977,000	126,005,248
5	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,065	64,439,017	30,934,000	11,974,000	126,267,392
6	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,069	65,836,063	31,979,000	10,992,000	126,177,280
7	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,070	66,056,867	29,986,000	12,994,000	126,267,392
8	Apr 11, 2026 06:36	3,072	66,419,080	31,006,000	12,002,000	126,181,376
9	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,075	62,959,438	32,036,000	11,012,000	126,173,184
10	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,081	65,427,828	30,089,000	13,038,000	126,267,392
11	Apr 11, 2026 06:36	3,082	61,820,784	31,103,000	12,040,000	126,267,392
12	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,082	74,678,569	31,107,000	12,041,000	126,009,344
13	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,085	65,644,499	32,143,000	11,049,000	126,267,392
14	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,091	73,301,897	30,491,000	12,786,000	126,271,488
15	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,092	66,294,528	30,204,000	13,088,000	126,009,344
16	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,094	63,770,494	31,225,000	12,087,000	126,164,992
17	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,125	74,351,978	32,809,000	10,936,000	126,267,392
18	Apr 11, 2026 06:38	3,127	71,248,246	30,843,000	12,934,000	126,164,992

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