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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 15:18:10 +0000
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Description
-Plzip is a massively parallel (multithreaded) data compressor compatible
-with the lzip file format. The files produced by plzip are fully
-compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. Plzip is intended for faster
-compression/decompression of big files on multiprocessor machines. On
-files big enough, plzip can use hundreds of processors. Currently only
-compression is performed in parallel. Parallel decompression is planned
-to be implemented later.
+Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor
+based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a
+user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Plzip uses the lzip
+file format; the files produced by plzip are fully compatible with
+lzip-1.4 or newer.
-Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with
-very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of
-gzip or bzip2. Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses
-better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution
-and data archiving.
+Plzip is intended for faster compression/decompression of big files on
+multiprocessor machines, which makes it specially well suited for
+distribution of big software files and large scale data archiving. On
+files big enough, plzip can use hundreds of processors.
Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Antonio Diaz Diaz.