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denzquix | 3 years ago

From their own benchmarks it seems more like bzip3 is geared towards a different compression/speed trade-off than bzip2, rather than an unambiguous all-around improvement. Am I misreading it?

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once_inc|3 years ago

That's what I took out of it too. Sacrificed a bit of speed and a lot of memory for a smaller output size.

edit: ah, bzip3 is parallelizable, while bzip2 isn't. That alone is enough for me to be able to claim 'faster'.

thilog|3 years ago

bzip2 can exploit concurrency through pbzip2, can't it?