Tradeoff between best compression and speed

6.10 LPAR mode z/VM guest

A minimum size of compressed data and fast compression are conflicting goals.

For hardware-accelerated compression with GenWQE, the compression ratio is roughly equivalent to gzip --fast.

Data that has been compressed with GenWQE hardware-acceleration might have a different size from data that has been compressed in software. The data compression standards are not violated by this difference. Despite possible differences in size of the compressed data, data that is compressed with GenWQE hardware-acceleration can be decompressed in software and vice versa.