Brion Vibber wrote:
Decompression takes as long as compression with bzip2
I think decompression is *faster* than compression http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks
LZMA is nice and fast to decompress... but *insanely* slower to compress, and doesn't seem as parallelizable. :(
-- brion
I used the lzma benchmark as evidence to support that decompressing bzip2 is faster than compressing.