from the author's comments: "It’s way faster. Like, way faster. Seriously, I didn’t try to benchmark because it will depend on your network, but it helped me wi

from the author's comments: "It’s way faster. Like, way faster. Seriously, I didn’t try to benchmark because it will depend on your network, but it helped me with uploads that were going painfully slow (~12 hours -> ~3 hours, using 8 cores)." :)