On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Mark Adler <mad...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: > As a side note, there already is a gzip replacement that I wrote that uses > zlib and that also provides parallel compression called pigz. > >> On Jul 9, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: >> >> On 07/09/2015 04:31 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-fights-cancer/ >>> >> >> A few years ago I started to rewrite gzip to use zlib rather than to do its >> own compression and decompression. If we finished that, we could use >> cloudfare's zlib implementation trivially.
Hi Mark, How close is pigz to being a strict superset of the functionality of gzip? I.e., would we lose anything if we were to install pigz with the name gzip?
