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lzbench is an in-memory benchmark of open-source compressors

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2016-06-30 · latest 2026-01-22

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  1. …which will print the compression ratio, compression speed, and decompression speed. [0] https://github.com/inikep/lzbench
    comment by terrelln · 2026-01-22 · in ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss
  2. …page) lzbench has added ZXC to its suite. This makes a nice apples to apples comparison possible. https://github.com/inikep/lzbench
    comment by sounds · 2025-12-21 · in Show HN: ZXC – Asymmetric, +40% decode vs. LZ4 on ARM (C, BSD-3, Fuzzed)
  3. latest - sorted by Ratio : https://github.com/inikep/lzbench/blob/master/doc/lzbench20_...
    comment by pella · 2025-02-14 · in Lzbench compression benchmark
  4. …) In my opinion, it is better to check the original repository: https://github.com/inikep/lzbench or this: https://github.com/inikep/lzbench/blob/master/doc/lzbench20_...
    comment by pella · 2025-02-14 · in Lzbench compression benchmark
  5. For a benchmark on a standard set: https://github.com/inikep/lzbench/blob/master/lzbench18_sort... Of course, you may get different results with another dataset. gzip (zlib -6) [ratio=32%] [compr=35Mo/s] [dec=407Mo/s] zstd (zstd -2)…
    comment by idoubtit · 2024-04-01 · in Chrome Feature: ZSTD Content-Encoding
  6. …of ratio, but Lizard would be >10x slower to compress while only ~3x faster to decompress. [1] https://github.com/inikep/lzbench
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2022-05-25 · in Lizard – efficient compression with fast decompression
  7. …which is much slower than SSD or network, There are some, but you have to select the right one. https://github.com/inikep/lzbench#benchmarks
    comment by ReleaseCandidat · 2021-12-18 · in What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code (2020)
  8. …evaluation, one can try [TurboBench]( https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench ) or even [lzbench]( https://github.com/inikep/lzbench ) which are open-sourced. Squash introduces a wrapper layer with distortions which makes it less reliable,…
    comment by blank_state · 2016-06-30 · in Lossless compression with Brotli