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bzip2 is very very slow though. Some types of data compress quite well with bzip, but if high compression is needed, xz is usually as good or better and nativel

by ac29 4y ago

bzip2 is very very slow though. Some types of data compress quite well with bzip, but if high compression is needed, xz is usually as good or better and natively has multithreading available. For everything else, there's zstd (also natively multithread)

sitkack 4y ago
Interesting https://docs.rs/zstd/latest/zstd/stream/write/struct.Encoder.html#method.multithread https://docs.rs/zstd/latest/zstd/stream/write/struct.Encoder...
- iruoy 4y ago
  Decompression is multithreaded by default. Compression with an argument. However it is built-in.