[csw-users] pbzip2 0.9.6 available on testing

[Alessio Cervellin]

pbzip2 0.9.6 is now available on /testing (this is a new CSW package).

PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file
compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP
machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2
v1.0.2 (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with bzip2).

It is simply great: its speedup against bzip2 is linear to the number of
processors or cores of the system, e.g. on a dual sparc processor
machine it compresses a file in half the time of the standard bzip2, and
it produces a fully backward compatible .bz2 archive. Same gain is
achieved on machines having single processor with dual core like intel
centrino duo.

Once you try it, you'll forget the old bzip2.

http://compression.ca/pbzip2/

Dependencies:
CSWbzip2