The same applies to the compression space. You look at LZ4 benchmarks decompressing at 4GB/s, only to realize that in the real world, you're not decompressing a

The same applies to the compression space. You look at LZ4 benchmarks decompressing at 4GB/s, only to realize that in the real world, you're not decompressing a _single_ hot block in a loop, but rather a whole file consisting of thousands of small blocks. Fetching, iterating and processing these blocks shave half the decompression speed and you end up with 1.5GB/s.