POWER8-compression-bench
POWER8E testing with a PowerNV 8284-22A and Matrox Millennium G550 on Debian via the Phoronix Test Suite.


POWER8 compression suite: 

	Processor: POWER8E @ 3.69GHz (20 Cores / 160 Threads), Motherboard: PowerNV 8284-22A, Memory: 768GB, Disk: 2 x 140GB IPR-0 6A91A700 + 2 x 140GB IPR-0 6A919900, Graphics: Matrox Millennium G550, Network: 2 x Intel 82571EB/82571GB

	OS: Debian, Kernel: 5.19.0-2-powerpc64le (ppc64le), Vulkan: 1.3.224, Compiler: GCC 12.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480


System ZLIB Decompression 1.2.7

ms < Lower Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 2677.69 |===========================================


System XZ Decompression

Seconds < Lower Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 5.613 |=============================================


System GZIP Decompression

Seconds < Lower Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 4.975 |=============================================


XZ Compression 5.2.4
Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9
Seconds < Lower Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 30.95 |=============================================


Gzip Compression
Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz
Seconds < Lower Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 50.79 |=============================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.13
FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 5.323 |=============================================


7-Zip Compression 22.01
Test: Decompression Rating
MIPS > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 181990 |============================================


7-Zip Compression 22.01
Test: Compression Rating
MIPS > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 152110 |============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 19, Long Mode - Decompression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 2044.9 |============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 19, Long Mode - Compression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 29.3 |==============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 8, Long Mode - Decompression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 2360.2 |============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 8, Long Mode - Compression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 393.7 |=============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 3, Long Mode - Decompression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 2347.6 |============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 3, Long Mode - Compression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 451.5 |=============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 19 - Decompression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 1942.2 |============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 48.5 |==============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 8 - Decompression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 2117.0 |============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 3 - Decompression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 2111.7 |============================================


LZ4 Compression 1.9.3
Compression Level: 9 - Decompression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 9018.4 |============================================


LZ4 Compression 1.9.3
Compression Level: 9 - Compression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 35.49 |=============================================


LZ4 Compression 1.9.3
Compression Level: 3 - Decompression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 8896.5 |============================================


LZ4 Compression 1.9.3
Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 36.44 |=============================================


LZ4 Compression 1.9.3
Compression Level: 1 - Decompression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 11113.0 |===========================================


LZ4 Compression 1.9.3
Compression Level: 1 - Compression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 9020.41 |===========================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 688 |===============================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Libdeflate 1 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 125 |===============================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 355 |===============================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Brotli 2 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 127 |===============================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 291 |===============================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Brotli 0 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 285 |===============================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Crush 0 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 355 |===============================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Crush 0 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 81 |================================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 857 |===============================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Zstd 8 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 68 |================================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 795 |===============================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 283 |===============================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: XZ 0 - Process: Decompression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 79 |================================================


lzbench 1.8
Test: XZ 0 - Process: Compression
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 19 |================================================


C-Blosc 2.3
Test: blosclz bitshuffle
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 4444.2 |============================================


C-Blosc 2.3
Test: blosclz shuffle
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 9163.2 |============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 8 - Compression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 982.3 |=============================================


Zstd Compression 1.5.0
Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed
MB/s > Higher Is Better
POWER8 compression suite . 3335.0 |============================================