Plzip 1.13-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.13-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.13-rc1.tar.gz
The sha256sums are:
f20ef6bf94db0b0e97e2b0338977386b72494259a28308b817b62c9b340dd0b0
plzip-1.13-rc1.tar.lz
f180be947c2b59aab8c491292a6629e6f249b7d5894e3226abd8241faa4b5bec
plzip-1.13-rc1.tar.gz
Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
Plzip is a massively parallel (multithreaded) implementation of lzip. Plzip
uses the compression library lzlib.
Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one
of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
chain-Algorithm) designed to achieve complete interoperability between
implementations. The maximum dictionary size is 512 MiB so that any lzip
file can be decompressed on 32-bit machines. Lzip provides accurate and
robust 3-factor integrity checking. 'lzip -0' compresses about as fast as
gzip, while 'lzip -9' compresses most files more than bzip2. Decompression
speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip provides better data
recovery capabilities than gzip and bzip2. Lzip has been designed, written,
and tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as general-purpose
compressed format for Unix-like systems.
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 smaller than 1 MiB plzip is no faster
than lzip (not even at compression level -0).
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
Changes in this version:
* '-dvv' and '-tvv' now print (de)compressed sizes instead of compression
ratio. (Sizes are more informative than compression ratio).
* Large numbers in option arguments are now accepted with underscore
separators (-s 123_456_789).
* Large numbers are now printed with underscore separators (123_456_789).
* By default, '--help' now prints a short help screen containing only the
command-line options. For full help, call plzip with options '-v --help'.
* '--list' now can safely skip any trailing data added to a lzip file by
the option '--append' of lziprecover.
* '--list' now prints '+t' after the number of members to indicate the
presence of trailing data, and prints the size of the trailing data below
the size of the last member.
* '-lvv' now prints a blank line between the list of members of each
multimember file and the next file.
* 'EXIT STATUS' now has its own section in the man page.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
