Plzip 1.8-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.8-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.8-pre1.tar.gz
The sha256sums are:
89bcde63d29ece5947157d9e869f79a542f589e9cbca716b779c3d879df0e282
plzip-1.8-pre1.tar.lz
9b6870f8a1ca8bfbc689a32552cae25dc1e80c9e07dd39b06bab3f196a6e6142
plzip-1.8-pre1.tar.gz
Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor
based on the lzlib compression library, with a user interface similar to
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.
Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines
much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression
ratio (0.4 to 2 percent larger compressed files). Note that the number
of usable threads is limited by file size; on files larger than a few GB
plzip can use hundreds of processors, but on files of only a few MB
plzip is no faster than lzip.
Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.
The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
Changes in this version:
* The new options '--in-slots' and '--out-slots', setting the number
of input and output packets buffered during streamed decompression, have
been added. Increasing the number of packets may increase decompression
speed, but requires more memory.
* The default number of input packets buffered per worker thread when
decompressing from non-seekable input has been increased from 2 to 4.
* The default number of output packets buffered per worker thread
when decompressing to non-seekable output has been increased from 32 to 64.
* Detection of forbidden combinations of characters in trailing data
has been improved.
* Errors are now also checked when closing the input file.
* The descriptions of '-0..-9', '-m' and '-s' in the manual have been
improved.
* The configure script now accepts the option '--with-mingw' to
enable the compilation of plzip under MS Windows (with the MinGW
compiler). Use with care. The Windows I/O functions used are not
guaranteed to be thread safe.
* The configure script now accepts appending options to CXXFLAGS
using the syntax 'CXXFLAGS+=OPTIONS'.
* It has been documented in INSTALL the use of
CXXFLAGS+='-D __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO' when compiling on MinGW.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.
--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1 and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
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