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Google releases a better compression algorithm

Posted Mar 2, 2013 5:06 UTC (Sat) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588)
In reply to: Google releases a better compression algorithm by jezuch
Parent article: Google releases a better compression algorithm

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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