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



Attachment: pbzip2.tgz
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