Hi. This patch builds bzip2 with profile guided optimization, the --combine option, and -fomit-frame-pointer: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~robert/new/patches/bzip2-1.0.5-faster.diff
The non-shared bzip2 program decompresses 7% faster for me, without accounting for -fomit-frame-pointer. The libbz2.so library runs 4.5% faster for me. The profiling optimization works a lot better when the all the code is built together, so the non-shared bzip2 program is suggested. So: cp -v bzip2 /bin/bzip2 # Not bzip2-shared I also tried other options like -fwhole-program, -O3, and -finline-functions, and they made bzip2 and the library slower. My tests were only with decompression, of a gcc tarball, but compression should also be faster. There are also other bzip2 packages that do parallel/multithread compression, but not parallel decompression. robert
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