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Created April 6, 2011 14:36
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Unscientific benchmark of QPress and tar/gz using defaults
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gistfile1.txt
Source is a MySQL backup (xtrabackup) of 21 GiB
1: Tar/GZ
time tar -zcf 2011-04-05_20-48-27.tar.gz 2011-04-05_20-48-27
real 19m25.423s
user 18m46.210s
sys 0m23.309s
result: 5.7G (27% of original size)
2: QPress
time qpress -rv 2011-04-05_20-48-27 2011-04-05_20-48-27.qp
real 0m54.771s
user 1m18.761s
sys 0m8.445s
result: 7.8G (37% of original size)
Summary: QPress is very fast.
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