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Also https://github.com/vasi/pixz https://github.com/vasi/pixz, which uses a more computationally efficient yet widely supported compression algorithm (lzma/xz)

by ak217 6y ago

Also https://github.com/vasi/pixz https://github.com/vasi/pixz, which uses a more computationally efficient yet widely supported compression algorithm (lzma/xz) and adds indexing, making byte range access possible in large files within the archive (and does also support parallel decompression).

goodside 6y ago
Zstandard also has experimental support for seekable (and thus parallel) decompression, but it isn't included in distributed binaries. See: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395 https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395