compression1 QEMU 2.0.0 testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite + cputune QEMU Virtual 2.0.0: Processor: 15 x QEMU Virtual 2.0.0 @ 2.40GHz (15 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 7GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 2.0.0 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better QEMU Virtual 2.0.0 . 28229 |=================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better QEMU Virtual 2.0.0 . 7.15 |==================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better QEMU Virtual 2.0.0 . 13.33 |=================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better QEMU Virtual 2.0.0 . 310.65 |==================================================