gzip vs lzma

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ testing with a ASUS M2N-E SLI and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1024MB on Gentoo 2.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite.

HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1204170-BY-GZIPVSLZM18.

gzip vs lzmaProcessorMotherboardMemoryDiskGraphicsOSKernelDesktopDisplay ServerDisplay DriverOpenGLCompilerFile-SystemScreen Resolution2012-04-16 23:00AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores)ASUS M2N-E SLI4096MB300GB Seagate ST3300620AS + 320GB Western Digital WD3200JD-00K + 200GB Western Digital WD2000JB-00G + 120GB Western Digital WD1200JB-00GNVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1024MB (550/400MHz)Gentoo 2.13.3.1-gentoo (x86_64)KDE 4.8.2X Server 1.12.0NVIDIA 295.403.3.0 NVIDIAGCC 4.5.3 + LLVM 3.0reiserfs2960x1050OpenBenchmarking.org- --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3 --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --disable-libgcj --disable-libssp --disable-lto --disable-werror --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,fortran --enable-libgomp --enable-libmudflap --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-secureplt --enable-shared --enable-targets=all --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/include --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/man --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/python --without-cloog --without-ppl

gzip vs lzmacompress-gzip: 2GB File Compressioncompress-lzma: 256MB File Compression2012-04-16 23:0024.62278.60OpenBenchmarking.org

Gzip Compression

2GB File Compression

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterGzip Compression2GB File Compression2012-04-16 23:00612182430SE +/- 1.81, N = 624.62

LZMA Compression

256MB File Compression

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterLZMA Compression256MB File Compression2012-04-16 23:0060120180240300SE +/- 0.69, N = 3278.601. (CC) gcc options: -O2

Phoronix Test Suite v10.8.4