Benchmark pigz vs gzip
What is pigz ?
“pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.” – pigz
Who doesn’t love benchmarks ?
File Data: Tarred Enron Corpus
File Size: 1823139840 bytes ~ 1.7 gigabytes
System Specs:
Processor Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5507
Processor Speed: 2.7 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 4 MB
pigz results
compress
time pigz -9 enron_mail_082109.tar
real 0m44.136s
user 2m5.400s
sys 0m1.570s
decompress
time pigz -d -9 enron_mail_082109.tar.gz
real 0m14.354s
user 0m12.270s
sys 0m3.260s
gzip results
compress
time gzip -9 enron_mail_082109.tar
real 2m27.748s
user 1m53.860s
sys 0m1.380s
decompress
time gunzip -9 enron_mail_082109.tar.gz
real 0m29.564s
user 0m18.270s
sys 0m2.250s
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