sbc-compression ARMv7 rev 5 testing with a BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1 and BCM2708 on Raspbian 9.4 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Workstation: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS Z170-A (3703 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Intel Kaby Lake, Memory: 63488MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Intel HD 630 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection + Qualcomm Atheros AR5418 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 MACCHIATObin 1.3: Processor: Unknown (4 Cores), Motherboard: Marvell Armada 8040 MacchiatoBin (EDK II BIOS), Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 860 + 8GB 8GME4R + 32GB SC32G OS: Fedora 27, Kernel: 4.16.5-200.fc27.aarch64 (aarch64) 20180427, Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180303, File-System: ext4 Raspberry Pi 2 1000MHz: Processor: ARMv7 rev 5 @ 1.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1, Memory: 927MB, Disk: 32GB EB1QT, Graphics: BCM2708 OS: Raspbian 9.4, Kernel: 4.14.34-v7+ (armv7l), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 656x416 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Workstation ............ 28272 |=============================================== MACCHIATObin 1.3 ....... 5378 |========= Raspberry Pi 2 1000MHz . 1329 |== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Workstation ............ 7.52 |== MACCHIATObin 1.3 ....... 38.13 |========== Raspberry Pi 2 1000MHz . 173.78 |============================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Workstation ............ 31.41 |==== MACCHIATObin 1.3 ....... 106.73 |============ Raspberry Pi 2 1000MHz . 399.11 |============================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Workstation ............ 236.07 |==== Raspberry Pi 2 1000MHz . 2889.83 |=============================================