Hi. I sent this a while back but this time add myself as maintainer and update pigz to the latest release.
"A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines." -- http://zlib.net/pigz/ $ time pigz foo.tar 0m9.43s real 0m22.36s user 0m7.13s system $ time gzip foo.tar 0m23.63s real 0m21.31s user 0m0.67s system Hopefully I'm not missing anything this time. Ok? Thanks.
pigz-2.3.1.tgz
Description: Unix tar archive