SMP Version of tar

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 19:00+0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> > I would be willing to work on a SMP version of tar (initially just gzip or
> > something).
> > 
> > I don't have the best experience in compression, and how to multi-thread it,
> > but I think I would be able to learn and help out.
> 
> gzip cannot - it is single stream.
> 
> bzip2 - no idea

Check out archivers/pbzip2.

> grzip (from ports, i use it) - can be multithreaded as it packs using fixed
> large chunks.

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