There're also projects like http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ . We'll be facing more and more cores per cpu, so we should use these techniques.
-- [Feature request] qemu-img multi-threaded compressed image conversion https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Feature request: qemu-img multi-threaded compressed image conversion Suppose I want to convert raw image to compressed qcow2. Multi-threaded conversion will be much faster, because bottleneck is compressing data.