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Timings for CNVGRIB on P5+

Timings and compression ratios for a GFS Master file (591 MB with 633 records)
Note that timings are averages

Compression Algorithm
Time to convert to GRIB2
Time to convert to GRIB1
Compression Ratio
Simple Packing (-p0)
54.03
60.48
1:1
Complex Packing (-p2)
76.51
63.16
1.7:1
Complex w/ 1st order diffs (-p31)
81.56
55.02
2.2:1
Complex w/ 2nd order diffs (-p32)
81.74
50.33
2.4:1
JPEG2000 Encoding (-p40)
263.57
206.92
3.0:1
PNG Encoding (-p41)
302.31
74.44
2.0:1


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