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Author Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

2005-01-30, 7:50 am

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Mike Furr wrote:
> Adam Heath wrote:
> | Is there a library version?
> No, perhaps the short description is misleading. pbzip2 works by
> splitting up a file into chunks and then encoding each chunk with a
> separate thread(via libbz2), so it is perhaps more described as a
> parallel frontend to libbz2. This also means that the encoding is
> slightly less efficient(the author claims it usually produces a .bz2
> that is <= 0.2% larger than standard).


Is this thing rsync-friendly? If it is... wow!

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh


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