Re: better default support for parallel compression

2021-11-04 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/3/21 22:13, Mike Frysinger wrote: with the rise of commodity multicore computing, tar feels a bit antiquated in that it still defaults to single (de)compression. it feels like the defaults could & should be more intelligent. has any thought been given to supporting parallel (de)compressio

Re: better default support for parallel compression

2021-11-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 04 Nov 2021 13:15, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/3/21 22:13, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > with the rise of commodity multicore computing, tar feels a bit antiquated > > in > > that it still defaults to single (de)compression. it feels like the > > defaults > > could & should be more intelligent. h