Plzip 1.7-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.7-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.7-rc2.tar.gz
The sha256sums are:
c6b91e975f85783cd58aaad540eafc91902a639ba70c69b187376106bd66232f
plzip-1.7-rc2.tar.lz
96cc8366f265b58cfe47d4270d5c7b7c25425603757c4f42c3a9b45bf7bc67ff
plzip-1.7-rc2.tar.gz
Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor
based on the lzlib compression library, with a user interface similar to
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.
Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines
much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression
ratio (0.4 to 2 percent larger compressed files). Note that the number
of usable threads is limited by file size; on files larger than a few GB
plzip can use hundreds of processors, but on files of only a few MB
plzip is no faster than lzip.
Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.
The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
Changes in this version:
* Some changes have been made to reduce memory fragmentation and
total memory use.
* When compressing on a 32 bit system, plzip now tries to limit the
memory use to under 2.22 GiB (4 worker threads at level -9) by reducing
the number of threads below the system's default. (This is an
improvement on the limit implemented in -rc1).
* A block diagram of plzip has been added to the manual.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.
--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1 and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
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