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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org