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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 15:11:56 +0000
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Description
-Plzip is a parallel version of the lzip data compressor. Currently only
+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.