On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Mark Adler <mad...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: > Bastien, > > pigz (a parallel version of gzip) has a variable buffer size. The -b or > --blocksize option allows up to 512 MB buffers, defaulting to 128K. See > http://zlib.net/pigz/
Thanks for the reminder about pigz, Mark. This is yet another reason to consider gzip is in maintenance-only mode, i.e., the barrier to adding new features is even higher, given that pigz is so compatible, yet with added features and the benefit of a modern codebase.
