Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (648 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/11/2010 05:28 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have been playing around with newer, multithreaded implementations of
> bzip2 and gzip and is my impression that we need to provide
> "update-alternatives" to them, so users are able to select their
> favorite tool.
>
> I came to the conclusion that I have no reason to use the traditional
> "bzip" when compared to "pbzip2" or gzip when compared to "pigz".
>
> attached is a compression and decompression time graph of all this tools
> to give you an idea ;)
>
> Cheers.
>   
JFYI I've replaced bzip2 with pbzip2 and even on my puny dual core
celeron, tar -acf file.tar.bz2 increases speed from, for a 63445k
compressed to 13221k file, 23sec to 17sec 26% improvement.
Regards
Dave P
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