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TurboBench:Compressor Benchmark

High performance precision, zero overhead. One might call it the compression lie detector
The only benchmark program including LzTurbo
100% in-memory benchmark, no I/O overhead
Include (>70) allmost all popular, latest or fastest compressors in one compiled package
Benchmarking Entropy Coders, Lz77, Rolz, BWT and Context mixing compressors
Multiple input files with recursive directories
Concatenate multiple small files into one multiblock file
Avoid cache szenario and cpu throttling found in other benchmarks
Automatic sort, update and merge of result files
Text, html, csv, markdown output
:sparkles: Transfer speed sheet for different connections or devices: GPRS,2G,3G,4G,DSL,Network,HDD,SSD,RAM
:+1: Html plot: Speedup + Speed/Ratio
All in one executable, no hassless installing of additional packages, graphic libraries, python,...
:+1: build in peak memory usage reporting for compression and decompression in html output

CPU: Sandy bridge i7-2600k at 4.4GHz, gcc 6.3, single thread.

(bold = pareto) MB=1.000.000

C Size	ratio%	C MB/s	D MB/s	Name
32823983	32.8	3.40	67.92	lzma 9
32872154	32.8	0.31	315.27	brotli 11d27
32925079	32.9	1.70	70.67	lzturbo 49
33936389	33.9	2.57	1701.35	lzturbo 39
34105370	34.1	3.32	952.59	zstd 22
36751363	36.7	48.30	1701.59	lzturbo 32
36920708	36.7	2.98	2355.32	lzturbo 29
46546059	46.5	163.77	1489.57	lzturbo 31
46805879	46.8	44.66	940.64	zstd 9
48152545	48.1	52.94	349.62	brotli 4
49497505	49.4	2.48	2299.20	lizard 49
49773790	49.7	38.08	1952.73	lzturbo 22
49860700	49.8	16.94	295.99	zlib 9
49962678	49.9	35.70	294.24	zlib 6
50278958	50.2	282.43	1372.91	lzturbo 30
52509931	52.5	290.96	347.16	brotli 1
52549655	52.5	239.35	2153.41	lzturbo 21
52928477	52.9	69.17	276.75	zlib 1
52983490	52.9	393.67	984.00	zstd 1
54251482	54.2	2.60	4367.15	lzturbo 19
54410769	54.4	46.37	3305.22	lz4 9
55923645	55.9	188.40	4200.23	lzturbo 12
57606731	57.6	386.90	3948.64	lzturbo 11
59085723	59.0	698.39	2196.24	lzturbo 20
61455711	61.4	800.71	4003.54	lzturbo 10
61938605	61.9	730.46	3330.40	lz4 1
100098564	100.0	8647.84	8408.10	memcpy

Hardware: ODROID C2 - ARM 64 bits - 2Ghz CPU, OS: Ubuntu 16.04, gcc 5.3
Compressors with versions 16.08.2016
pd3d.tar - 3D Test Set (RAD Game Tools)

C Size	ratio	C MB/s	D MB/s	Name
8052040	25.2	0.53	23.23	lzma 9
9092280	28.4	0.08	52.61	brotli 11
9159574	28.7	0.52	119.76	lzturbo 39
9691094	30.3	0.68	94.02	zstd 22
9826984	30.7	3.24	136.91	lzturbo 32
10264073	32.1	26.15	142.28	lzturbo 30
10427322	32.6	4.90	108.76	zstd 9
10938385	34.2	9.46	110.38	lzfse
10966870	34.3	8.92	101.96	zstd 5
11059511	34.6	1.74	98.16	zlib 9
11121480	34.8	7.63	97.47	zlib 6
12649309	39.6	0.61	366.17	lzturbo 29
13302907	41.6	19.07	435.28	lzturbo 21
14237494	44.5	0.66	500.67	lzturbo 19
14283317	44.7	10.04	329.14	lz4 9
14723054	46.1	103.21	483.81	lzturbo 20
14814049	46.4	8.14	484.09	lzturbo 12
16069593	50.3	121.12	365.08	lz4 1
16166867	50.6	111.43	475.66	lzturbo 10
31952896	100.0	1676.10	1704.00	memcpy

test all fast compressors in the lz4, lzturbo, zlib class
(additional groups can be defined in the "turbobench.ini" file)
```
./turbobench -eFAST file
```
Some codecs can accept additional parameters (see option -l1 or file plugins.cc) (colon ':' as separator)
```
./turbobench -elzma,9mt2:d29:a1:fb273:mf=bt4:mc999:lc8:lp0:pb2 file
```

individual codec test (output to screen & file.tbb)

./turbobench -elzturbo,19,29,39/brotli,6/zlib,6 file

retest or test other compressors and merge the results to file.tbb
```
./turbobench -eFAST/bzip2 file
```

Print result file + "transfer+decompression speedup" plot to file.html for browsing

./turbobench -p2 -S2 file.tbb

	git clone --depth=1 --recursive https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench.git
    cd TurboBench
	make

	make NCODEC2=1

    make EC=1

Last update: 16 APR 2026