On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:09:01PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >>Is there a reason we're not delivering this version as the real bzip2, > >>then just providing a symlink? What is the advantage of the non-parallel > >>implementation exactly to mean it needs a new name? > > > > - pbzip2 requires memory equal to the size of the file to decompress a > >file compressed by bzip2, which may be extremely large and may not > >work at all > > Given this understanding, I agree. We should deliver them as separate > objects. Its really too bad, IMO, that this parallelization wasn't done > using a command line switch to enable it within the bzip2 application > itself. Oh well...
Agree with both comments. regards john
