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All benchmarks were performed using hyperfine with 5 runs per tool after a warm-up run.

Performance Overview

In these benchmarks, mkbrr was faster than or on par with the other torrent creation tools on each machine. On Apple Silicon, mkbrr and torf tied (9.71s and 9.78s, 1.01 ± 0.09 times). On the mechanical drives (Hetzner HDD), the run times of mkbrr varied much less than those of the other tools.

Hetzner AX102

2.86s for 15 GiB

Leaseweb SSD

7.24s for 21 GiB

Hetzner HDD

41.02s for 14 GiB

Apple Silicon

9.71s for 30 GiB

Detailed Results

Hardware

Hetzner Dedicated Server
  • AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D
  • 128GB DDR5 RAM @ 3600 MT/s
  • 2× KIOXIA KCD8XRUG1T92 in SW RAID-0

Test Results

15 GiB 1080p season pack
  • mkbrr: 2.86s
  • torf: 3.06s
  • torrenttools: 3.11s
  • mktorrent: 16.83s

Performance Consistency

The variation of mkbrr was between 0.25% and 3.7% on all platforms. On the mechanical drives, the variation of the other tools was between 9.9% and 39.1%. The variation is the standard deviation divided by the mean time, also called the coefficient of variation.

Hetzner AX102

All tools showed good consistency on high-end hardware:
  • mktorrent: 1.62% variation
  • mkbrr: 1.75% variation
  • torf: 2.29% variation
  • torrenttools: 2.93% variation

Hetzner HDD

Other tools showed significant fluctuations on HDD:
  • mkbrr: 2.4% variation
  • torf: 9.9% variation
  • torrenttools: 22.0% variation
  • mktorrent: 39.1% variation

Leaseweb SSD

All tools performed consistently on SSD:
  • mkbrr: 0.25% variation
  • mktorrent: 0.36% variation
  • torf: 0.87% variation
  • torrenttools: 1.02% variation

Detailed Benchmark Data

Leaseweb Server (21 GiB 1080p season pack)

Hetzner Server (14 GiB 1080p season pack)

Macbook Pro M4 (30 GiB 1080p season pack)

Hetzner Ryzen 9 7950X3D (15 GiB season pack)