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authorYann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com>2015-03-30 17:32:21 (GMT)
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Benchmarks
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-The benchmark uses the [Open-Source Benchmark program by m^2 (v0.14.2)](http://encode.ru/threads/1371-Filesystem-benchmark?p=33548&viewfull=1#post33548) compiled with GCC v4.6.1 on Linux Ubuntu 64-bits v11.10,
-The reference system uses a Core i5-3340M @2.7GHz.
+The benchmark uses the [Open-Source Benchmark program by m^2 (v0.14.3)](http://encode.ru/threads/1371-Filesystem-benchmark?p=33548&viewfull=1#post33548) compiled with GCC v4.8.2 on Linux Mint 64-bits v17.
+The reference system uses a Core i5-4300U @1.9GHz.
Benchmark evaluates the compression of reference [Silesia Corpus](http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia) in single-thread mode.
-<table>
- <tr>
- <th>Compressor</th><th>Ratio</th><th>Compression</th><th>Decompression</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <th>LZ4 (r101)</th><th>2.084</th><th>422 MB/s</th><th>1820 MB/s</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <th>LZO 2.06</th><th>2.106</th><th>414 MB/s</th><th>600 MB/s</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <th>QuickLZ 1.5.1b6</th><th>2.237</th><th>373 MB/s</th><th>420 MB/s</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <th>Snappy 1.1.0</th><th>2.091</th><th>323 MB/s</th><th>1070 MB/s</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <th>LZF</th><th>2.077</th><th>270 MB/s</th><th>570 MB/s</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <th>zlib 1.2.8 -1</th><th>2.730</th><th>65 MB/s</th><th>280 MB/s</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <th>LZ4 HC (r101)</th><th>2.720</th><th>25 MB/s</th><th>2080 MB/s</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <th>zlib 1.2.8 -6</th><th>3.099</th><th>21 MB/s</th><th>300 MB/s</th>
- </tr>
-</table>
-
-The LZ4 block compression format is detailed within [lz4_block_format.txt](lz4_block_format.txt).
+| Compressor | Ratio | Compression | Decompression |
+| ---------- | ----- | ----------- | ------------- |
+|**LZ4 (r129)** | 2.101 |**385 MB/s** |**1850 MB/s** |
+| LZO 2.06 | 2.108 | 350 MB/s | 510 MB/s |
+| QuickLZ 1.5.1.b6 | 2.238 | 320 MB/s | 380 MB/s |
+| Snappy 1.1.0 | 2.091 | 250 MB/s | 960 MB/s |
+| zlib 1.2.8 -1 | 2.730 | 59 MB/s | 250 MB/s |
+|**LZ4 HC (r129)** |**2.720**| 22 MB/s |**1830 MB/s** |
+| zlib 1.2.8 -6 | 3.099 | 18 MB/s | 270 MB/s |
+
+The LZ4 block compression format is detailed within [lz4_Block_format](lz4_Block_format.md).
For streaming unknown amount of data and compress files of any size, a frame format has been published, and can be consulted within the file LZ4_Frame_Format.html .