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| pixz | solaris-userland | |
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| 8 | 2 | |
| 684 | 151 | |
| - | 3.3% | |
| 4.8 | 9.7 | |
| about 1 month ago | 2 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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pixz
- pixz: Parallel, Indexed xz Compressor
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Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines
That's really confusing since `pixz` exists and its "pixie" pronunciation actually works
https://github.com/vasi/pixz
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Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving
pixz (https://github.com/vasi/pixz) is a nice parallel xz that additionally creates an index of tar files so you can decompress individual files. I wonder if dpkg could be extended to do something similar.
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The best datahoarding hint that changed my live: use RAR archives (or any other archive format, really)
There's pixz, which indexes the tarball, allowing listing/extracting individual paths without decompressing the whole thing.
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Hop: 25x faster than unzip and 10x faster than tar at reading individual files
Also relevant is pixz [1] which can do parallel LZMA/XZ decompression as well as tar file indexing.
[1] https://github.com/vasi/pixz
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7-Zip 21.0 alpha introduces native Linux support
Yes, it's as easy as installing pixz with symlinks pointing to xz (I think Debian even does this automatically as part of its post-installation scripts).
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C Deep
pixz - Parallel, indexed xz compressor. BSD-2-Clause
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PeaZip 7.7.1 released!
Not quite what you're asking, but if you're a 7-Zip fan and on Linux, you might be interested in pixz.
solaris-userland
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Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines
You can grab the version from the solaris userland repo I linked and use it without me completing a homework assignment. Just grab the pigz-2.3.4 source then apply the patches from [1] in the proper order. Maybe some of them aren't needed for non-Solaris.
1. https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/compo...
I thought I had opened a PR for that a long while ago, but it doesn't show up on github these days. In any case, I did ask Mark Adler to review it. It was never a priority, then the code changed in ways that I don't really want to deal with.
While looking through the PRs, I noticed a PR for Blocked GZip Format (BGZF) [2]. That's very interesting, and perhaps suggests that bgzip is a tool you would be interested in.
2. https://github.com/madler/pigz/pull/19
What are some alternatives?
p7zip - A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/).
isa-l - Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library
notepadqq - A simple, general-purpose editor for Linux
rapidgzip - Gzip Decompression and Random Access for Modern Multi-Core Machines
asar - Simple extensive tar-like archive format with indexing
DirectStorage - DirectStorage for Windows is an API that allows game developers to unlock the full potential of high speed NVMe drives for loading game assets.
ratarmount - Access large archives as a filesystem efficiently, e.g., TAR, RAR, ZIP, GZ, BZ2, XZ, ZSTD archives
TurboBench - Compression Benchmark
libarchive - Multi-format archive and compression library
Moby - The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
precomp-cpp - Precomp, C++ version - further compress already compressed files
containerd - An open and reliable container runtime