Table 3.

Comparison of processing (compression) times of six software suites. Times are recorded row by row denoting real, user, and system time in order

Data	Time	MCH	MCG	MCEG	bzip2	gzip	MFComp
ERR321482	real	299 m 20 s	294 m 27 s	274 m 43 s	2 m 2 s	3 m 49 s	2 m 38 s
	user	422 m 21 s	422 m 49 s	402 m 25 s	1 m 56 s	3 m 45 s	4 m 49 s
	sys	12 m 24 s	8 m 48 s	12 m 13 s	0 m 1 s	0 m 1 s	0 m 13 s
SRR359032	real	127 m 34 s	129 m 32 s	128 m 14 s	5 m 36 s	10 m 39 s	8 m 2 s
	user	245 m 53 s	247 m 43 s	253 m 16 s	5 m 19 s	10 m 30 s	13 m 3 s
	sys	8 m 37 s	10 m 1 s	15 m 25 s	0 m 2 s	0 m 2 s	0 m 15 s
ERR532393	real	639 m 55 s	635 m 53 s	641 m 32 s	11 m 28 s	22 m 18 s	17 m 2 s
	user	1061 m 50 s	1069 m 9 s	1090 m 20 s	11 m 4 s	21 m 58 s	28 m 29 s
	sys	73 m 59 s	27 m 59 s	43 m 35 s	0 m 5 s	0 m 5 s	0 m 21 s
SRR1450398	real	440 m 4 s	439 m 42 s	440 m 36 s	7 m 38 s	14 m 39 s	10 m 32 s
	user	66 m 56 s	865 m 38 s	865 m 6 s	7 m 19 s	14 m 24 s	18 m 8 s
	sys	821 m 2 s	23 m 51 s	26 m 5 s	0 m 3 s	0 m 3 s	0 m 18 s
SRR062462	real	217 m 21 s	224 m 32 s	215 m 58 s	2 m 48 s	2 m 6 s	6 m 38 s
	user	254 m 26 s	261 m 19 s	256 m 17 s	2 m 7 s	1 m 18 s	10 m 39 s
	sys	15 m 45 s	16 m 48 s	20 m 14 s	0 m 3 s	0 m 3 s	0 m 16 s