Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add the snappy-c compressor to lib

Mike Dunn
2011-11-09T12:07:12Z

On 11/09/2011 03:09 AM, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 14:37 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>>> This is a C port of the google snappy compressor. It has roughly
>>> comparable compression to LZO, but is significantly faster on many file
>>> types. For example it beats all other compressors on already
>>> compressed data.
>> Sounds cool, thanks Andi! Is any UBIFS user interested to try this out?
>> I think this stuff needs some real users to make it go into mainline
>> smoothly.
>>
> I could be interresting to have benchmarks on arm (or other system where UBIFS
> is used).
>
> snappy use lot's of unaligned access.
> They need to be emulated on pre-armv6 core.

I'm currently testing ubifs on armv5 (xscale). If you'd like me to collect some
benchmark data, I'd be glad to help if you can provide a little guidance.

Thanks,
Mike