Package: bzip2 Version: 1.0.3-6 Severity: wishlist As bzip2 is block-oriented, it should be relatively easy to make it multi-threaded, so that it can benefit from a multi-core setup.
Niels Werensteijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> already did that (for the compression stage only) in 2003, maybe you could just take over his multi-thread modifications, if he agrees, and (if a significant gain can be expected) make the decompression stage multi-threaded, too. His project "smpbzip2" can be found here: http://home.student.utwente.nl/n.werensteijn/smpbzip2/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages bzip2 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co bzip2 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
