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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by t43562 on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:56PM (#42910797)
> bzip2 -9 -k all.tar 981.78s user 9.77s system 95% cpu 8M memory 17:16.64 total

> bzip3 -e -b 256 -j 12 all.tar 2713.81s user 16.28s system 634% cpu 18301M memory 7:10.10 total

The memory usage is one reason: 8M vs 18301M

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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by loeg on Sunday February 02, 2025 @11:09PM (#42914873)
I think you intended to reply somewhere else. This isn't responsive.
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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by t43562 on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:34AM (#42917191)
yes - thanks!
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