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@@ -1,18 +1,15 @@ 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. |