Yep - I've not used pigz, but be advised that pbzip2 does not produce
the same file as bzip2 with the same options.
Functionally they're the same and can be treated as such, but a parallel
bzipped file is a few bytes larger and has multiple index/lookup
tables of one per core/thread. (probably have the name wrong there but
you get the idea)
So, md5 will be different.
John Carter wrote, On 09/02/10 11:11:
Multicores are becoming more and more common. Compression is still
something I need to do regularly.
So some new tools that combine multi-core speed up with compression.
pigz is a drop in replacement for gzip
pbzip2 is a drop in replacement for bzip2
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