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README: Update COMPRESSION_RATIO section
authorEric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Tue, 14 May 2013 15:28:56 +0000 (10:28 -0500)
committerEric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Tue, 14 May 2013 15:28:56 +0000 (10:28 -0500)
README

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@@ -65,20 +65,21 @@ better than Microsoft's software, especially with multithreaded compression,
 available in wimlib v1.1.0 and later.
 
 The following tables compare the compression ratio and performance for creating
 available in wimlib v1.1.0 and later.
 
 The following tables compare the compression ratio and performance for creating
-a compressed Windows PE image (disk usage of about 524 MB, uncompressed WIM size
-361 MB):
+a compressed x86_64 Windows PE image.  Note: these timings were done in a
+Windows 7 virtual machine so that the times would be fully comparable; however,
+wimlib-imagex will have even better performance on Linux.
 
         Table 1. WIM size
 
                                            XPRESS Compression      LZX Compression
 
         Table 1. WIM size
 
                                            XPRESS Compression      LZX Compression
-        wimlib-imagex (v1.2.1):            138,971,353 bytes       131,379,943 bytes
-        Microsoft imagex.exe:              140,406,981 bytes       127,249,176 bytes
+        wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0):            176,724,198 bytes       165,919,718 bytes
+        Microsoft imagex.exe:              178,763,991 bytes       160,138,533 bytes
 
         Table 2. Time to create WIM
 
                                            XPRESS Compression      LZX Compression
 
         Table 2. Time to create WIM
 
                                            XPRESS Compression      LZX Compression
-        wimlib-imagex (v1.2.1, 2 threads): 11 sec                  17 sec
-        Microsoft imagex.exe:              25 sec                  89 sec
+        wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0, 2 threads): 44 sec                  66 sec
+        Microsoft imagex.exe:              60 sec                  115 sec
 
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