pbzip2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with bzip2).
This utility is getting interesting now that rthreads is becomming usable. My entirely unscientific tests show that we get a slight speedup w/ rthreads and a speed decrease w/ pthreads compared to regular bzip2 on amd64/GENERIC.MP. Port done with oga who told me to take maintainer. tested on amd64 comments/ok?
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