pbzip2: Parallel BZIP2 0.9.6 Released
Posted by Sachin Garg on 11th February 2006 | Permanent Link
Jeff Gilchrist’s PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 1.0.2 (ie: anything compressed with PBZIP2 can be decompressed with bzip2).
This release fixes a major bug that caused some blocks to be missed by the decompression routine under certain conditions.
There was another release in Jan which fixed some major bugs that caused random segfaults and other problems with large files. It now defaults to silent operation like bzip2, and adds support for more win32 compilers like Borland.
February 11th, 2006 at 5:55 am
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February 13th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
You have the release note info correct, but its actually v0.9.6 that was just released. Not sure where you got 0.8.2 from. ;-)
February 14th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Ouch! Have fixed this.
I came across this in fm.announce newsgroup. The “thread” subject mentioned 0.8.2, I should have noticed that the “post” was about v0.9.6
February 24th, 2007 at 4:58 am
Thanks that deal with this problem.