And in case you didn't already know, there is a parallel implementation of gzip called "pigz" that functions just like gzip, but is super fast on a machine with

And in case you didn't already know, there is a parallel implementation of gzip called "pigz" that functions just like gzip, but is super fast on a machine with lots of cores.. like many modern PC's! Say for example you have a 32 core amd machine, the speed up is awesome using pigz.