compress qemu testing on Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid via the Phoronix Test Suite. AMD A8-4555M: Processor: AMD A8-4555M APU @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 48GB, Graphics: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid, Kernel: 4.4.0-1-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160307, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: qemu 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better AMD A8-4555M . 3980 |========================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD A8-4555M . 45.54 |========================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD A8-4555M . 36.25 |========================================================= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD A8-4555M . 986.75 |========================================================