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bzip2 can exploit concurrency through pbzip2, can't it?

• klauspost 4y ago
  It is kind of a hack for decompression, where you look forward in the stream for a block signature, and try decompressing from there. In practice it works, but it isn't pretty ;)
• gjvc 4y ago
  see also: lbzip2 (context: I have had a situation where files created by pbzip2 on linux were not able to be decompressed with some library on .NET, but using lbzip2, they were. I never looked into the details.)
  • Klasiaster 4y ago
    Can't agree more, lbzip2 is the go-to tool for dealing with bzip2 compression and decompression, it's a whole lot of faster than bzip2 which is single-threaded!