Re: How to do a survey on lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative?

[ERSEK Laszlo <lacos@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, George Danchev wrote:

> Not that I can help with the surveys, but you may want to compare your
> compressor to the practical tests and comparisons found at [1], and eventually
> update your debaday article with the results.
>
> [1] (URLs might be wrapped)
> http://changelog.complete.org/archives/910-how-to-think-about-compression
> http://changelog.complete.org/archives/931-how-to-think-about-compression-
> part-2

Thanks for the links.

I'm not arguing users should use lbzip2 or any other bzip2 implementation. 
As I commented below the debaday article [0]:

[0] http://debaday.debian.net/2009/11/12/lbzip2-parallel-bzip2-utility/#comment-158296

    I recommend lbzip2 for the case when you're bound to or want to use
    bzip2, for whatever reason. I'm not saying you should choose lbzip2 over
    other compressor families.

A trivial reason to use bzip2 is to decompress a file downloaded from the 
internet. If you have a multi-core CPU and the file was compressed with 
standard bzip2, you might want to use lbzip2. Perhaps even automatically.

Cheers,
lacos