I gave the instructions at https://linux-on-z.blogspot.com/2019/10/howto-exploiting-hardware-compression.html to exercise the hardware compression and it certainly gives things a boost:
Without – $ time python test.py 7.23user 0.33system 0:07.57elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1278228maxresident)k With (the new .so was in my cwd) – $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD time python test.py 1.49user 0.27system 0:01.77elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1282176maxresident)k One issue I did have during the build was that __STDC_VERSION__ wasn’t defined so I had to do it manually via -D Neale Ferguson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
