Comment by throwaway81523

I'd like to know what QAT actually is? Some kind of special purpose hardware extension for LZ and crypto? I used to compress a lot of files using xz and it is slow, but not THAT slow. I have a now-ancient 4 core i7 server and it takes a day or so hours to compress a TB of text. I haven't looked at it in a while and don't remember actual numbers, but the point is that if you don't need realtime response, the cpu usage of these algorithms is tolerable without special hardware.