It is the decompression speed that is slow. On Jan 14, 2015, at 9:52, Magnus Manske <m...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
> Is that actual decompression speed, or seeking? Because there is > block-seeking in bzip2, if done right. > > > On 14 Jan 2015, at 14:22, Heng Li <l...@me.com> wrote: > >> >> Probably not, I guess. Bzip2 is a bad fit to large-scale data as >> decompression is far too slow. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Samtools-help mailing list Samtools-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/samtools-help
