Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Mike Furr wrote: Adam Heath wrote: | Is there a library version? No, perhaps the short description is misleading. pbzip2 works by splitting up a file into chunks and then encoding each chunk with a separate thread(via libbz2), so it is perhaps more described as a

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-30 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: | On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Mike Furr wrote: | Is this thing rsync-friendly? If it is... wow! Unlikely. The number of blocks is very small (O(# of threads)) so rsync would not be able to gain much performance in the

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation thanks. Package name: pbzip2 Version: 0.9 Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ License: BSD-style license, same as bzip2 Description: parallel

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Mike Furr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation thanks. Package name: pbzip2 Version: 0.9 Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ License: BSD-style license, same as

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Mike Furr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation thanks. Package name: pbzip2 Version: 0.9 Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ License:

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:42:36PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Mike Furr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation thanks. Package name: pbzip2 Version: 0.9 Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Heath wrote: | Is there a library version? No, perhaps the short description is misleading. pbzip2 works by splitting up a file into chunks and then encoding each chunk with a separate thread(via libbz2), so it is perhaps more described as a

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: | Mike, I would like to make pbzip2 part of the bzip2 package. May I | take over your ITP report? Sure, that would be fine, take it. Since the RFP cc'd you and I didn't hear from anyone in a couple of days, I wasn't sure