On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:12:36PM +0000, Richard Farmbrough wrote:
The big advantage with pbzip2 (if it's the program
I've been looking at)
is the unzip speed. I can't keep everything unzipped, and some
utilities can't read bz2 files. Every time I unzip pages-articles I am
into a long wait - before I get an error...
Problem with pbzip is its "bad proliferation out there". It's not part
of default installs and some distributions like the notorious Debian
constantly ship old and buggy versions (1.1.8 in wheezy, 1.1.9 in
jessie).
LZMA also offers a much improved unzip at the cost of
a little more
zipping time. Since many unzips occur and only one zip this seems like
a good deal.
The world has moved on since my proposal in 2012 and maybe a look at
https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4
would be in order.
regards,
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