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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:35:45 +0100 (MET)
From: Dmitrii Pasechnik <dima AT cs DOT uu DOT nl>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Does gzip support multiple processors under windows 2000?
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote:
>
>Im trying to compress 1 large file.  Im work with machines that have 4 procs
>and I figured if I could get gzip to take advantage of smp it might compress
>these files faster.
>
bzip algorithm should be quite suitable for parallelization.
It compresses blocks of certain (not too large) size and then glues the
result together.
Further, the most time-consuming part of it 
is a kind of sorting, and sorting
is known to be easy to parallelize...
(OK, that's getting quite off-topic).

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Dmitrii Pasechnik
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