Package Info

lbzip2


Parallel bzip2/bunzip2 Filter


Productivity/Archiving/Compression

Lbzip2 is a Pthreads-based parallel bzip2/bunzip2 filter, passable to GNU tar with the --use-compress-program option.

It isn't restricted to regular files on input, nor output. Successful splitting for decompression isn't guaranteed, just very likely (failure is detected). Splitting in both modes and compression itself occur with an approximate 900k block size.

On an Athlon-64 X2 6000+, lbzip2 was 92% faster than standard bzip2 when compressing, and 45% faster when decompressing (based on wall clock time).

Lbzip2 strives to be portable by requiring UNIX 98 APIs only, besides an unmodified libbz2.


License: GPL-3.0-or-later
URL: https://github.com/kjn/lbzip2

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Releases

Package Version Update ID Released Package Hub Version Platforms Subpackages
2.5-bp155.3.10 info GA Release 2023-05-17 15 SP5
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • lbzip2
2.5-bp154.2.20 info GA Release 2022-05-09 15 SP4
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • lbzip2
2.5-bp153.2.14 info GA Release 2021-03-06 15 SP3
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • lbzip2
2.5-bp152.3.13 info GA Release 2020-04-16 15 SP2
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • lbzip2
2.5-bp151.3.1 info GA Release 2019-07-17 15 SP1
  • AArch64
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • lbzip2
2.5-bp151.2.15 info GA Release 2019-05-18 15 SP1
  • ppc64le
  • lbzip2
2.5-bp150.2.5 info GA Release 2018-07-30 15
  • AArch64
  • lbzip2
2.5-bp150.2.4 info GA Release 2018-07-30 15
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • lbzip2