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bzip2 is much slower than gzip.

• mobilio 3y ago
  Very bzip2 problem is that even decompression is slower.
• aidenn0 3y ago
  bzip2 is not much slower at compression than gzip; gzip is far faster at decompression though. Either way since bzip2 is a block based compressor, parallelization is trivial, and parallel implementations started appearing about 20 years ago; pbzip2 is almost certainly in whichever package manager is in use for TFA.