Hi! On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > A different question is whether in the cases where parallel bzip2 makes > sense, is it really the best solution? xz is outperforming bzip2's > compression ratio for large files (for an informal comparison, see bug > 434350). And xz is faster at decompression, which offsets the parallel > advantage to some degree.
As for the performance side of things: http://blog.i-no.de/archives/2008/05/08/index.html#e2008-05-08T16_35_13.txt Yes, that's four years old and needs to be redone with modern implementations (and machines). Will do so this weekend (I hope). Regards, Tobias -- printk (KERN_ALERT "You are screwed! " ...); linux-2.6.6/arch/i386/kernel/efi.c
