04-10-2024, 10:00 AM
Okay, I have finally benchmarked LZ4 and Zstandard on real hardware. I have measured the boot time for RC3 ISOs on my Eee PC 1001PX. I booted it off a USB drive with Ventoy. The time is between when I pressed enter in the ISOLINUX boot menu and when I saw Conky appear on the desktop.
This doesn't mean zstd is faster than LZ4. The difference between LZ4 and zstd is too small to mean anything with how I benchmarked them.
- XZ (official) — 1:46
- LZ4 (official) — 1:05
- Zstandard (generated with the script) —1:04
This doesn't mean zstd is faster than LZ4. The difference between LZ4 and zstd is too small to mean anything with how I benchmarked them.