Add compression algorithms benchmark

diff --git a/memo/benchmark/compression-algorithms b/memo/benchmark/compression-algorithms
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+== Compression of source code ==
+
+time tar cf  gcc-3.4.6-newbin.tar     gcc-3.4.6-newbin
+time tar czf gcc-3.4.6-newbin.tar.gz  gcc-3.4.6-newbin
+time tar cjf gcc-3.4.6-newbin.tar.bz2 gcc-3.4.6-newbin
+time tar cJf gcc-3.4.6-newbin.tar.xz  gcc-3.4.6-newbin
+
+|| *archiver* || *size* || *pack*  || *unpack* ||
+|| tar        || 147MB  ||  0.267s ||  0.809s  ||
+|| tar.gz     ||  53MB  ||  9.251s ||  1.963s  ||
+|| tar.bz2    ||  45MB  || 17.134s ||  7.640s  ||
+|| tar.xz     ||  18MB  || 69.461s ||  2.218s  ||
+
+Computed on giskard-x201 (Intel i7 M 620 @ 2.67GHz, Fedora 14 x86_64)