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Re:Bzip3 – A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2 by thilog on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @07:07AM (#31325661)
bzip2 can exploit concurrency through pbzip2, can't it?
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Re:Bzip3 – A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2 by klauspost on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:35AM (#31326312)
It is kind of a hack for decompression, where you look forward in the stream for a block signature, and try decompressing from there.

In practice it works, but it isn't pretty ;)

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Re:Bzip3 – A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2 by gjvc on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:47AM (#31327063)
see also: lbzip2

(context: I have had a situation where files created by pbzip2 on linux were not able to be decompressed with some library on .NET, but using lbzip2, they were. I never looked into the details.)

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Re:Bzip3 – A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2 by Klasiaster on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:42AM (#31337362)
Can't agree more, lbzip2 is the go-to tool for dealing with bzip2 compression and decompression, it's a whole lot of faster than bzip2 which is single-threaded!
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