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29 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 6 stories, 23 comments · first 2015-11-25 · latest 2026-09-16

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    Show HN: TurboBench, the Compression Lie Detector, 100 Codecs, Daily Update
    story by powturbo · 2026-09-16 · 0 comments
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    Show HN:TurboBench: Data Compression Benchmark. The Compression Lie Detector
    story by powturbo · 2026-09-12 · 1 comment
  3. Yes, the most similar one is indeed Selkie. misa77 and oodle are both supported in turbobench (see: https://github.com/powturbo/turbobench ), so it's easy to compare them. Results on the silesia corpus on the same Intel setup described in…
    comment by nonadhocproblem · 2026-07-16 · in Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)
  4. …fast enough for dynamic contents in my opinion. [1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40196713 [2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/issues/43 [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/14dbzMpsYPfkefAJos124uPrl...
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2024-02-08 · in Zstd Content-Encoding planned to ship with Chrome 123
  5. Sorry, a digit was missing, but now https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/issues/43 Well, a correct benchmarking is not done with special data, but with datasets that represent a large set of distributions. Such datasets are for ex.…
    comment by powturbo · 2023-08-31 · in Ebiggers/libdeflate: Heavily optimized DEFLATE/zlib/gzip library
  6. …then wondering why I could not find any igzip benchmarks on the repository's ReadMe and then found https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/issues/43 , so I guess this is the one you wanted to link to and the 3 got cut off.
    comment by mxmlnkn · 2023-08-31 · in Ebiggers/libdeflate: Heavily optimized DEFLATE/zlib/gzip library
  7. …igzip. See the silesia single core in-memory benchmark here [1] comparing zlib,libdeflate,igzip,... https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/issues/4
    comment by powturbo · 2023-08-31 · in Ebiggers/libdeflate: Heavily optimized DEFLATE/zlib/gzip library
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    Web Content Compression Benchmark.zlib brotli zstd zlib_ng libdeflate igzip,...
    story by powturbo · 2023-08-28 · 1 comment
  9. …from Releases [2] Here Some Benchmarks: - https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/issues/1486 - https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/issues/43 [1] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench [2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/releases
    comment by powturbo · 2023-08-27 · in Ebiggers/libdeflate: Heavily optimized DEFLATE/zlib/gzip library
  10. …from Releases [2] Here Some Benchmarks: - https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/issues/1486 - https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/issues/43 [1] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench [2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/releases
    comment by powturbo · 2023-08-17 · in Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard
  11. …630.78 4395.08 lz4 1 Download TurboBench [1] from [2] and make the tests on your machine. [1] - https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench [2] - https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/releases
    comment by powturbo · 2023-07-23 · in LZAV – Fast In-Memory Data Compression Algorithm (In C)
  12. …lz4 1 211948544 100.0 16032.92 16023.24 memcpy lzturbo (closed source) included as reference [1] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench [2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/releases
    comment by powturbo · 2023-07-22 · in LZAV – Fast In-Memory Data Compression Algorithm (In C)
  13. …a brotli developer [2] and "Chrome: Implement zstd content-encoding" [3] : [1] - Benchmark App: https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench [2] - https://twitter.com/powturbo/status/1678333893626195969 [3] -…
    comment by powturbo · 2023-07-11 · in Show HN: TurboBench: Dynamic/Static web content compression benchmark
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    Show HN: TurboBench: Dynamic/Static web content compression benchmark
    story by powturbo · 2023-07-11 · 1 comment
  15. …your sample file, we get 823 bytes with brotli Download TurboBench and make your own tests: [1] - https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench
    comment by powturbo · 2023-06-12 · in Variation on RLE to Achieve Lossless Compression for Tabular Data
  16. …is best for very fast networks > 10MB/s brotli brings little value at decompression for users [1] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench [1] https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/home/web-compression [2]…
    comment by powturbo · 2023-06-10 · in A student’s desire to get out of a exam led to a compression algorithm
  17. …windows from releases [2] ans make your own tests comparing oodle,zstd and other compressors. [1] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench [2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/releases
    comment by powturbo · 2023-05-12 · in Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines
  18. …the plots with turbobench [2] [1] https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/home/web-compression [2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench
    comment by powturbo · 2020-01-05 · in Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression
  19. …The claims are not based on speculations, but on numbers coming from verifiable benchmarks with " https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench" including the Daala_EC and the AOM AV1 entropy coder.
    comment by powturbo · 2018-06-21 · in Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain
  20. see Compression Benchmark at ( https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench ) reply
    comment by powturbo · 2018-02-07 · in Zstandard: Fast real-time compression algorithm from Facebook Opensource
  21. see Compression Benchmark at ( https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench )
    comment by powturbo · 2018-02-07 · in Zstandard – Real-time data compression algorithm
  22. …Lizard [1] both claim to be faster at decompression while having better compression ratios. [0] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench [1] https://github.com/inikep/lizard
    comment by Darkenetor · 2017-06-25 · in How LZ4 works (2016)
  23. …more importantly, it compresses _much worse_. For a 3rd party 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…
    comment by blank_state · 2016-06-30 · in Lossless compression with Brotli
  24. …es.google.com/site/powturbo/entropy-coder Better test this yourself on your own data with TurboBench: https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench
    comment by powturbo · 2016-05-15 · in Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy encoding (2013)
  25. …interesting, closed source but you one can download exec: https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/ https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench
    comment by eln1 · 2016-04-28 · in Kraken: 3x faster decompression than zlib
  26. …You must also download rle64 if you want to use test it. The better option is to use TurboBench: https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench
    comment by powturbo · 2015-12-30 · in Show HN: TurboRLE – Turbo Run Length Encoding using SIMD
  27. You can make your own tests and your data with TurboBench: https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench
    comment by powturbo · 2015-12-27 · in Brotli compression for the web
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    Show HN: TurboBench Compressor Benchmark + nice Plots
    story by powturbo · 2015-12-02 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: TurboBench – Compressor Benchmark
    story by powturbo · 2015-11-25 · 1 comment