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@@ -71,3 +71,21 @@ bzip3 17M memory
 lzma 95M memory
 gzip 5M memory
 ```
+
+## Benchmark on the Linux kernel
+
+```
+bzip3 -e -b 32 linux.tar linux.tar.bz3  104.71s user 0.41s system 99% cpu 192M memory 1:45.16 total
+bzip2 -9 -k linux.tar  61.23s user 0.35s system 99% cpu 8M memory 1:01.58 total
+gzip -9 -k linux.tar  43.08s user 0.35s system 99% cpu 4M memory 43.435 total
+lzma -9 -k linux.tar  397.30s user 0.90s system 99% cpu 675M memory 6:38.28 total
+```
+
+```
+wc -c linux.tar*
+1215221760 linux.tar
+ 157810434 linux.tar.bz2
+ 130959938 linux.tar.bz3
+ 208100532 linux.tar.gz
+ 125725455 linux.tar.lzma
+```