Quick Benchmark: Gzip vs Bzip2 vs LZMA vs XZ vs LZ4 vs LZO - CatchChallenger wikiSelected archives I have selected: Source of the kernel to test source compression Stream protocol with flush Test conditions Tests were run on a desktop: Intel Core i5 CPU 750 at 2.67GHz 8GB of DDR3 memory tmpfs as ram disk is used Linux kernel 3.3.2, gentoo amd64 CFLAGS: -pipe -O2 -g -floop-block -floop-interchange -fgraphite bzip2-1.0.6-r3, xz-utils-5.0.3, gzip-1.4 Only normal mode will be test
