On 2024-02-19 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Okay, so the input matters, too. I tried 1GiB urandom (so it does not
> compress so well) but that went quicker than expected…
urandom should be incompressible. When LZMA2 cannot compress a chunk it
stores it in uncompressed form. Decompression is
On 2024-02-18 22:35:03 [+0200], Lasse Collin wrote:
> The balance between the hottest locations in the decompressor code
> varies depending on the input file. Linux kernel source compresses very
> well (ratio is about 0.10). This reduces the benefit of branchless
> code. On my main computer I
