On 2008/06/13 15:58, Johan Mson Lindman 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).
btw, I tested on amd64 (LP64), sparc64 (LP64, big-endian, strict alignment), arm (strict alignment, char defaults to unsigned), and made sure compress + decompress gives the original file back.
