Lbzip2 A multi-threaded bzip2/bunzip2 filter that doesn't depend on the lseek() system call and so isn't restricted to regular files
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A multi-threaded bzip2/bunzip2 filter that doesn't depend on the lseek() system call and so isn't restricted to regular files Lbzip2 is a pthreads-based parallel bunzip2/bzip2 filter, passable to GNU tar with the --use-compress-program option. It isn't restricted to regular files on input, nor output. Successful splitting for decompression isn't guaranteed, just very likely (failure is detected).Splitting in both modes and compression itself occur with an approximate 900k block size. On an Athlon-64 X2 6000+, lbzip2 was 92% faster than standard bzip2 when compressing, and 45% faster when decompressing (based on wall clock time). Lbzip2 strives to be portable by requiring UNIX 98 APIs only, besides an unmodified libbz2. What's New in This Release: · Uninitialized fields were accessed on the stack in a structure assignment expression. · Theoretically, this might have entailed read accesses to trap representations. · Since those fields weren't initialized because they weren't used at all in the first place, this portability bug was fixed by introducing a dedicated structure without those fields.

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