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Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs

The article benchmarks an LZ4 decompressor on four legacy CPUs, comparing their performance in decompression speed and efficiency. The results highlight notable differences in throughput and instructions per cycle across the older processors.

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