wsl-compression
Intel Core i7-7700HQ testing with a Dell 05FFDN (1.18.0 BIOS) and Intel HD 630 3GB on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-7700HQ @ 2.81GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Memory: 16GB, Disk: 117GB

	OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: wslfs, System Layer: wsl

Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2: 

	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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-7700HQ @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Dell 05FFDN (1.18.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 16GB, Disk: THNSN5512GPUK NVMe TOSHIBA 512GB + 64GB Flash Drive FIT, Graphics: Intel HD 630 3GB (1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC3266, Network: Intel 8265 / 8275

	OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-31-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4, Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160


C-Blosc 2.0 Beta 5
Compressor: blosclz
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 5934.2 |=================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 4896.0 |===========================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 6672.3 |=====================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: XZ 0 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 35 |=======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 36 |========================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 37 |=========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: XZ 0 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 96  |======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 96  |======================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 100 |========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 426 |=======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 427 |=======================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 437 |========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 1164 |======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 1155 |======================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 1195 |=======================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 71 |=====================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 77 |========================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 79 |=========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 1262 |======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 1251 |======================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 1289 |=======================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Crush 0 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 79 |====================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 91 |=========================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 86 |=======================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Crush 0 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 410 |=======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 411 |=======================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 422 |========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 389 |=======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 397 |========================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 399 |========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 532 |======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 520 |======================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 553 |========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 165 |=======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 168 |=======================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 171 |========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 625 |=======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 620 |=======================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 644 |========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 185 |=======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 186 |=======================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 190 |========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 1025 |======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 1027 |======================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 1050 |=======================================


7-Zip Compression 16.02
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 18320 |=================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 19250 |===================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 20888 |======================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 11.04 |======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 10.35 |====================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 10.01 |==================================


Gzip Compression
Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 44.70 |======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 43.56 |=====================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 41.01 |===================================


XZ Compression 5.2.4
Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 59.60 |======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 48.61 |===============================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 55.00 |===================================


Zstd Compression 1.3.4
Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 41.98 |======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 38.54 |===================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 39.35 |====================================


System XZ Decompression

Seconds < Lower Is Better
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL .. 4.677 |======================================
Windows 10 2004 19041.2640 WSL2 . 4.352 |===================================
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Bare Metal ..... 4.226 |==================================