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All tests were done only once so they might be not precise enough

Hardware/software:

• AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+, MMX, 3DNow
• 3 GiB? memory
• Hard drive: WDC WD2500JS?-55NCB1 184 GiB?, formatted using NTFS
• Windows XP SP2?

Data set 1: Bulgarian Wikipedia HTML dump

• downloaded from http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/2008-02/bg/
• content is available at http://static.wikipedia.org/wikipedia/bg/index.html
• size: 2.59 GiB? (135 MiB? compressed as .7z).
• number of files: 160,024
• number of directories: 14,227
• medium file size: 17.0 KiB?

Results:

• ^1 = no Unicode support
• ^2 = no Unicode support, file path length is limited to 256 characters
• ^3 = cancelled after 3 hours

Data set 2: freedb.org music database

• downloaded from http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-complete-20080501.tar.bz2
• size: 2.29 GiB? (578 MiB? compressed as .tar.bz2).
• number of files: 2,488,791
• number of directories: 11
• medium file size: 0.968 KiB?

Data set 3: 1.000 files with random content (1 MiB? each)

• size: 1 GiB?
• number of files: 1,000
• number of directories: 10
• medium file size: 1 MiB?