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It's good that they haven't. If you're compressing a large number of individual files (rather than combining them into a single archive), it's still more effici
by LeoPanthera 6y ago
It's good that they haven't. If you're compressing a large number of individual files (rather than combining them into a single archive), it's still more efficient to run multiple copies of gzip or whatever via something like "parallel".
- pdimitar 6y agoGood point. I don't think anything bad would happen if you could opt in via something like `-j8`, preserving the default backwards-compatible behaviour and offering an escape hatch for newer workloads / machines.