Package: bzip2 Version: 1.0.3-6 Severity: wishlist bzip2, like other streaming compression types (eg, bzip) can recompse data with multiple concated compressed chunks of data.
Eg, cat *.txt.bz2 > master.txt.bz2 ; bzcat master.txt.bz2 SMP and multicore systems are not fully utilized when one solitary thread of the process is running. Compression of a 40gb file could take far less time on these systems if each core/cpu compressed (say the window size?) their own portion of the data, and concated it behind the scenes to the output file. Granted, it would take more memory to, but the benifits on sufficently powerfull systems often outweigh this. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.1-20061221 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages bzip2 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co bzip2 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
