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Re: Parallel GZIP



Nelson Castillo wrote:
>> No, don't. I'm just wondering why. Actually I did a test in the same order
>> (bzip2 and the pbzip2) on a tar of my picture directory and on a video. I
>> just don't understand why my 2 runs aren't much quicker with pbzip2.
> 
> Your test data is already compressed :-) You will not be able to
> compress it much more.
But is this really reason to take twice CPU time with no significant reduce of
time? Though maybe it's just peculiarity of pbzip2 implementation.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor

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