401.bzip2
SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark Description

Benchmark Name

401.bzip2


Benchmark Author

Julian Seward <jseward [at] acm.org>


Benchmark Program General Category

Compression


Benchmark Description

401.bzip2 is based on Julian Seward's bzip2 version 1.0.3. The only difference between bzip2 1.0.3 and 401.bzip2 is that SPEC's version of bzip2 performs no file I/O other than reading the input. All compression and decompression happens entirely in memory. This is to help isolate the work done to only the CPU and memory subsystem.


Input Description

401.bzip2's reference workload has six components: two small JPEG images, a program binary, some program source code in a tar file, an HTML file, and a "combined" file, which is representative of an archive that contains both highly compressible and not very compressible files.

Each input set is compressed and decompressed at three different blocking factors ("compression levels"), with the end result of the process being compared to the original data after each decompression step.


Output Description

The output files provide a brief outline of what the benchmark is doing as it runs. Output sizes for each compression and decompression are printed to facilitate validation, and the results of decompression are compared with the input data to ensure that they match.


Programming Language

ANSI C


Known portability issues

None


References


Last updated: $Date: 2011-08-16 18:23:17 -0400 (Tue, 16 Aug 2011) $