** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: file-roller
  
  file-roller should use the 7z program (from the package p7zip-full) to 
decompress bzip2 archives, becauase it is faster than the bzip2 program itself.
  Get 100MB from /dev/urandom and compress it, one copy using bzip2 -1 and one 
using bzip2 -9, then make a copy of each of these. You should not have 4 bzip2 
archives, each about 100MB (because urandom doesn't compress well).
  Extract one of each with 7z (7z x archive.bz2) and one with bzip2 (bunzip2 
archive.bz2). Note how long it takes to extract. For me it was:
  Compressed with -1:
  bunzip2: 38 seconds
  7z: 27 seconds
  Compressed with -9:
  bunzip2: 52 seconds
  7z: 34 seconds.
  
  If you pull the data from /dev/zero rather than /dev/urandom, all come
  to 2 seconds, so no difference.
+ 
+ 
+ Version info:
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy bzip2 p7zip-full 
+ bzip2:
+   Installed: 1.0.4-0ubuntu1
+   Candidate: 1.0.4-0ubuntu1
+   Version table:
+  *** 1.0.4-0ubuntu1 0
+         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+ p7zip-full:
+   Installed: 4.47~dfsg.1-1
+   Candidate: 4.47~dfsg.1-1
+   Version table:
+  *** 4.47~dfsg.1-1 0
+         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

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Use 7z to decompress bz2 archives
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