On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Mark Adler 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 wrote:
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>> On 07/09/2015 04:31 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
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Jim,
On Jul 10, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> 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?
It should be very close. I wrote it to be a drop-in replacement.
As I recall there is
