Re: [xz-devel] Parallel decompression support

2020-05-11 Thread Lasse Collin
(Note that you need to use the same address as sender that was used to subscribe to the list.) On 2020-04-19 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > So (if I understood you correctly) what you suggest is to feed the > liblzma API and the lib then will fire up threads based on new > blocks. That means f

Re: [xz-devel] Parallel decompression support

2020-04-18 Thread Lasse Collin
Hello! Sorry for the delayed reply. On 2020-04-04 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I had an archive of ~35GiB which decompressed into ~80GiB and it took > almost 20 minutes to do so. Then I was thinking if it would be > possible to decompress it in parallel by feeding the individual > blocks to

[xz-devel] Parallel decompression support

2020-04-04 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Hi, I had an archive of ~35GiB which decompressed into ~80GiB and it took almost 20 minutes to do so. Then I was thinking if it would be possible to decompress it in parallel by feeding the individual blocks to the available CPUs. The patch at the bottom is a small C proof of concept so it is pos