[Info-vax] MIPS vs. VUPS

[terry+googleblog at tmk.com]

On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 7:05:41 AM UTC-4, Paul Sture wrote:
> FWIW there's another possibility here and that's to split up files to be
> compressed and run n jobs where n = the number of cores you have
> available.  In the case of a single large file, gzip files can be
> concatenated (see the man entries for gzip and gunzip), so it could be
> split, the components compressed in separate jobs so that they get their
> own core, then the results concatenated.

If you're not tied to the [PK]ZIP format, pbzip2 is a multithreaded implementation of the bzip2 compression format: http://compression.ca/pbzip2