Table 2.

Total execution time and memory usage comparison of Mashmap2 against Minimap2 and alignment-based tool Nucmer4

Id	Mashmap2		Minimap2		Nucmer4
	Time	Memory	Time	Memory	Time	Memory
D1	0.5 s	16 M	0.4 s	85 M	5.2 s	138 M
D2	1 m 26 s	3.5 G	3 m 3 s	17.3 G	5 h 1 m	53 G
D3	6 m 33 s	3.6 G	3 m 11 s	15.9 G	2 h 10 m	53 G
D4	27 m 33 s	9.0 G	15 m 6 s	26.7 G	33 h 4 m	57 G
D5	25 m 40 s	7.7 G	5 m 54 s	25.7 G	24 h 58 m	56 G
D6	13 m 6 s	10.0 G	3 m 10 s	10.4 G	25 m 2 s	53 G

Note: All software were run in parallel using eight CPU threads.