Re: Bug#655185: RFP: pxz -- parallel xz compressor

2012-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > Good question. Not sure if pristine-tar supports xz already at all. > > I thought it did, but upon closer inspection, it looks like pristine-tar has > been generating deltas for banshee's xz tarballs from ftp.gnome.org larger > than > the original tarballs themselves. A

Re: Bug#655185: RFP: pxz -- parallel xz compressor

2012-01-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/01/2012 13:16, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Chow Loong Jin wrote: >>> Parallel XZ is a compression utility that takes advantage of running >>> LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple cores >>> and processors simultaneously. Its primary goal is to utilize all >>> res

Re: Bug#655185: RFP: pxz -- parallel xz compressor

2012-01-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > Parallel XZ is a compression utility that takes advantage of running > > LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple cores > > and processors simultaneously. Its primary goal is to utilize all > > resources to speed up compression time with minima

Re: Bug#655185: RFP: pxz -- parallel xz compressor

2012-01-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/01/2012 12:16, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: pxz > Version : 4.999.9beta.20091201git > Upstream Author : Jindřich Nový > * URL or Web page : http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/pxz/ + > https://github.com/jnovy/pxz > * License

Bug#655185: RFP: pxz -- parallel xz compressor

2012-01-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pxz Version : 4.999.9beta.20091201git Upstream Author : Jindřich Nový * URL or Web page : http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/pxz/ + https://github.com/jnovy/pxz * License : GPLv2+ Description : Parallel LZMA/XZ compressor