A brief note on compressor performance.

All of our compression algorithms achieve roughly a factor of two in compression on average for all six programs. All can compress and decompress a page in well under half a millisecond on all processors. The WKdm algorithm is the fastest, compressing a page in about 0.25 milliseconds and decompressing in about 0.15 milliseconds on the Pentium Pro, faster on the SPARC 168 MHz, and over twice as fast on the SPARC 300 MHz. (This is over 20 MB compressed and uncompressed per second, about the bandwidth of a quite fast disk.) LZO is about 20% slower, and LZRW1 about 20% slower still.