large file parallel compression test

gistfile1.txt

centos6 is a directory of a VirtualBox VM, size 8689088000

command for compression
time tar --use-compress-program=pbzip2|lzop -cf centos6_oracle11r2.tar.xxx centos6
time lzrtar centos6

command for decompresison
time pbzip2|bzip2|lzop -cd centos6_oracle11r2.tar.xxx | tar tvf -
time lrzip -o - -d centos6.tar.lrz | tar tvf -

Size                                                 Compress   Decompress
2930396334 Sep 11 23:37 centos6_oracle11r2.zip       302         58   <-- this is the reference
3708523626 Sep 11 23:56 centos6_oracle11r2.tar.lzo    36         21
2710537316 Sep 11 23:42 centos6_oracle11r2.tar.bz2   213         73  (bzip2: 325)
1842342646 Sep 12 00:42 centos6.tar.lrz              519        750!!

hardware:
Macbook Pro Retina 2012, quad core 2.0G / 16G, original 256G Samsung SSD

versions:
macOS 10.12.6
homebrew 1.3.2, updated 2017-09-12
This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP.
lrzip version 0.631
pbzip2 Parallel BZIP2 v1.1.13 [Dec 18, 2015]
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor.  Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010.
lzop 1.04 LZO library 2.10

related post:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/258202/multi-core-compression-tools

Update 2020-01-27
MSI GF63 RCX quad core i5-9300H, 2.4G, 24G ram, 512G SSD
xz (XZ Utils) 5.2.2
liblzma 5.2.2

l2win.vdi 26,027,753,472 bytes
time ( tar -cf - l2win | xz --threads=4 > l2win_20200127_vbox6.0.16.tar.xz )
openssl md5 l2win_20200127_vbox6.0.16.tar.xz

tar.gz  is 7,810,053,656 bytes, 22 mins.