Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.22 Severity: wishlist For those with systems with multiple CPUs, it would be nice if dpkg could support multi-threaded decompression and compression. Here are some implementations and possible hints to implementations of these:
gzip: http://www.c10n.info/archives/505 http://zlib.net/pigz17.c.gz bzip2: http://packages.debian.org/pbzip2 lzma: Seems there is multi-threading in the windows version, needs porting to pthread though: http://groups.google.co.id/group/comp.os.linux.development.apps/browse_thread/thread/f8523eeeeb423fee -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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