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Author Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation
Adam Heath

2005-01-29, 5:55 pm

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Mike Furr wrote:

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> retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation
> thanks.
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> Package name: pbzip2
> Version: 0.9
> Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist <pbzip2@compression.ca>
> URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
> License: BSD-style license, same as bzip2
> Description: parallel bzip2 implementation
> ~ pbzip2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file
> ~ compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP
> ~ machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2
> ~ v1.0.2 (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with
> ~ bzip2). However, only files compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed
> ~ in parallel.


Is there a library version?


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