For gzip, try pigz. It's the parallel version of it. I used to want high single core performance for my python code. I've since switched to using VSCode with d

For gzip, try pigz. It's the parallel version of it. I used to want high single core performance for my python code. I've since switched to using VSCode with devcontainers which run remotely on my 5950x. That makes it fast enough ;-).