README: Tabulate results (#149)
I found this made comparison easier, and highlighted the higher compression ration achieved by bzip3.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f3934e7..381d1f3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -51,17 +51,22 @@ zstd -T12 -16 all.tar 4162.94s user 16.40s system 1056% cpu 687M memory 6:35.62
The results follow:
-* LZMA (xz) - 2'056'645'240 bytes
-* bzip2 - 3'441'163'911 bytes
-* bzip3 -b 256 - 1'001'957'587 bytes
-* bzip3 -b 511 - 546'456'978 bytes
-* Zstandard - 3'076'143'660 bytes
+| Method | Compressed size (bytes) |
+| ---------------- | -----------------------:|
+| LZMA (xz) | 2'056'645'240 |
+| bzip2 | 3'441'163'911 |
+| bzip3 -b 256 | 1'001'957'587 |
+| bzip3 -b 511 | 546'456'978 |
+| Zstandard | 3'076'143'660 |
Finally, wall clock time decompression times (WD Blue HDD):
-* LZMA (xz) - 4min 40s
-* bzip2 - 9min 22s
-* bzip3 (parallel) - 4min 6s
-* Zstandard - 3min 51s
+
+| Method | Decompression time |
+| ---------------- | ------------------:|
+| LZMA (xz) | 4min 40s |
+| bzip2 | 9min 22s |
+| bzip3 (parallel) | 4min 06s |
+| Zstandard | 3min 51s |
Then, I used `lrzip` to perform long-range deduplication on the original `.tar` file:
@@ -85,9 +90,11 @@ Finally, I compressed the resulting `none.tar.lrz` file using bzip3:
The results follow:
-* lrzip + bzip3 - 60'672'608 bytes.
-* lrzip + lzma - 64'774'202 bytes.
-* lrzip + bzip2 - 75'685'065 bytes.
+| Method | Compressed size (bytes) |
+| ---------------- | -----------------------:|
+| lrzip + bzip3 | 60'672'608 |
+| lrzip + lzma | 64'774'202 |
+| lrzip + bzip2 | 75'685'065 |
For further benchmarks against Turbo-Range-Coder and BSC, check [powturbo's benchmark](https://github.com/powturbo/Turbo-Range-Coder) of bzip3, bzip2, bsc and others.
