On Friday 13 June 2008 11:51:42 you wrote: > 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?
Take two, w/ comments and fixes from merdely and sthen... - update PLIST to reflect current @bin - do away w/ -lpthread (recommended by kurt some time ago) - zap redundant $CFLAGS and $PREFIX in patch-makefile
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