wsl2-compression microsoft testing on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-7700HQ: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700HQ (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Memory: 14GB, Disk: 2 x 275GB Virtual Disk OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 4.19.84-microsoft-standard (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: microsoft C-Blosc 2.0 Beta 5 Compressor: blosclz MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 4821.7 |================================================ lzbench 1.8 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 36 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: XZ 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 98 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 429 |=================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 1162 |================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 73 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 1260 |================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Crush 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 81 |==================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Crush 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 416 |=================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 391 |=================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 511 |=================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 166 |=================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 616 |=================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Compression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 185 |=================================================== lzbench 1.8 Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Decompression MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 1030 |================================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 18388 |================================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 10.50 |================================================= Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 43.23 |================================================= XZ Compression 5.2.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 58.38 |================================================= Zstd Compression 1.3.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 42.27 |================================================= System XZ Decompression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-7700HQ . 4.343 |=================================================