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Google releases a better compression algorithmGoogle releases a better compression algorithmPosted Mar 1, 2013 8:02 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)In reply to: Google releases a better compression algorithm by wmf Parent article: Google releases a better compression algorithm
There's also pbzip2. Bzip2, being a BWT-type algorithm, is quite easily parallelizable with little cost to compression ratio.
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Google releases a better compression algorithm Posted Mar 2, 2013 5:06 UTC (Sat) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
pbzip2 is incredible for bz2 files, but it will use up 100% of your available memory when you run it on big binary files. even with ionice -c3, it can be very intrusive
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