Bug#693859: ITP: pixz -- parallel, indexing version of xz

2012-11-20 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner brem...@debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: pixz Version : 0.0.0+git$something Upstream Author : Dave Vasilevsky d...@vasilevsky.ca * URL : https://github.com/vasi/pixz *

Re: Bug#693859: ITP: pixz -- parallel, indexing version of xz

2012-11-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:20:11PM -0400, David Bremner wrote: * Package name: pixz So why another parallel xz in the archive. - - This one seems about 25% faster compressing in some simple tests I ran (compressing a 2.7G file with 6 threads, maximum compression). You mean, 25%