On January 17, after more than a four-year hiatus, the console utility was released lzbench, written in C and C++ and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 or GPL 3 license.
The utility is designed to compare the speeds of many popular compression and decompression algorithms (their list can be obtained with the command lzbench -l).
Change log:
- CPU definition added.
- Support for CUDA and nvcomp added.
- Libraries updated:
- Snappy to version 1.1.10;
- lzlib to version 1.13;
- zstd to version 1.5.5;
- lz4 to version 1.9.3;
- fastlz to version 0.5.0;
- xz to version 5.2.5;
- snappy to the version from 2020-07-11;
- libdeflate to version 1.9;
- Brotli to version 1.0.9.
Source: linux.org.ru
