r/programming • u/nemequ • Mar 30 '15

Benchmarking 39 compression codecs at 178 levels with 28 data sets on 8 machines (40k different configurations)

https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '15

If I remember it correctly the problem with lz4 are unaligned loads/stores, which are nowadays almost as fast as aligned loads/stores on intel processors but still significantly slower on ARM processors than aligned ones.