multithread support for bzip2 (pbzip2)

Submitted by jano on Wed, 2009-06-03 18:39
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PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines.

See http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
Any chance you could make use of that code? It's open source and BSD licensed.

I just compressed 4.5Gb on a 8 core Mac Pro and the performance is terrific.

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Submitted by Robert on Wed, 2009-06-03 19:08.

Yes, I do have that on my to-do list already. It will be included in one of the next versions.