Use multiple CPU Cores with your Linux commands (rankfocus.com) 17 points by scarythoughts 12y ago ↗ HN
[–] wmf 12y ago ↗ BTW, bzip2 has been obsoleted by xz and the parallel version is called pxz. [–] iamthad 12y ago ↗ xz is clearly superior in many regards. My understanding is that xz can use significantly more memory upon compression/decompression.http://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip...Some additional discussion about why xz is not as widely used: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6493270/why-is-tar-gz-sti...
[–] iamthad 12y ago ↗ xz is clearly superior in many regards. My understanding is that xz can use significantly more memory upon compression/decompression.http://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip...Some additional discussion about why xz is not as widely used: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6493270/why-is-tar-gz-sti...
[–] devicenull 12y ago ↗ I find my favorite use of GNU parallel is as a parallel drop in replacement for xargs.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 21.5 ms ] threadhttp://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip...
Some additional discussion about why xz is not as widely used: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6493270/why-is-tar-gz-sti...