Benchmarks
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-For comparison, several fast compression algorithms were tested
-and compared on a Core i7-3930K CPU @ 4.5GHz,
+For comparison, several fast compression algorithms were tested and compared
+on a Linux Mint Debien edition server (`Linux version 4.8.0-1-amd64`),
+with a Core i7-5600K CPU @ 4.0GHz,
using [lzbench], an open-source in-memory benchmark by @inikep
-compiled with gcc 5.2.1, with the [Silesia compression corpus].
+compiled with gcc 6.3.0, on the [Silesia compression corpus].
[lzbench]: https://github.com/inikep/lzbench
[Silesia compression corpus]: http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia
-|Name | Ratio | C.speed | D.speed |
-|-----------------|-------|--------:|--------:|
-| | | MB/s | MB/s |
-|**zstd 1.0.0 -1**|**2.877**|**330**| **940** |
-| [zlib] 1.2.8 -1 | 2.730 | 95 | 360 |
-| brotli 0.4 -0 | 2.708 | 320 | 375 |
-| QuickLZ 1.5 | 2.237 | 510 | 605 |
-| LZO 2.09 | 2.106 | 610 | 870 |
-| [LZ4] r131 | 2.101 | 620 | 3100 |
-| Snappy 1.1.3 | 2.091 | 480 | 1600 |
-| LZF 3.6 | 2.077 | 375 | 790 |
+| Compressor name | Ratio | Compression| Decompress.|
+| --------------- | ------| -----------| ---------- |
+| **zstd 1.1.3 -1** | 2.877 | 430 MB/s | 1110 MB/s |
+| zlib 1.2.8 -1 | 2.743 | 110 MB/s | 400 MB/s |
+| brotli 0.5.2 -0 | 2.708 | 400 MB/s | 430 MB/s |
+| quicklz 1.5.0 -1 | 2.238 | 550 MB/s | 710 MB/s |
+| lzo1x 2.09 -1 | 2.108 | 650 MB/s | 830 MB/s |
+| lz4 1.7.5 | 2.101 | 720 MB/s | 3600 MB/s |
+| snappy 1.1.3 | 2.091 | 500 MB/s | 1650 MB/s |
+| lzf 3.6 -1 | 2.077 | 400 MB/s | 860 MB/s |
[zlib]:http://www.zlib.net/
[LZ4]: http://www.lz4.org/