try: import lz4 except ImportError: print('lz4 is not enabled, skipping test...') exit() def test(data: bytes): compressed = lz4.compress(data) decompressed = lz4.decompress(compressed) assert data == decompressed if len(data) == 0: return 0 return len(compressed) / len(data) test(b'') test(b'hello world') import random def gen_data(): values = [] for i in range(random.randint(0, 10000)): values.append(i % 256) return bytes(values) for i in range(100): ratio = test(gen_data()) # print(f'compression ratio: {ratio:.2f}') # test 64MB random data (require 1GB list[int] buffer) rnd = [random.randint(0, 255) for _ in range(1024*1024*1024//16)] test(bytes(rnd))