This roundup focuses on lossless compression tools which use multiple cores. Only free and open source software is included here.
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This roundup focuses on lossless compression tools which use multiple cores. Only free and open source software is included here.
Read morePlzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor based on the lzlib compression library.
Read morelbzip2 integrates well with tar. Even on single-core computers, lbzip2 can speed up archiving in combination with tar.
Read morePBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines.
Read morepixz is a parallel, indexed xz compressor. pixz produces a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible.
Read morepigz is a fully functional replacement for gzip that uses multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
Read moreThis article surveys compression software that makes full use of multi-core processors when compressing files. Many of the tools also offer decompression speedups too.
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