PIGZ: Parallel GZIP
Posted by Sachin Garg on 13th April 2007 | Permanent Link
Mark Adler, maintainer of popular zlib library has released a multicore capable Parallel Implementation of GZip, nicknamed PIGZ. Version 1.5 implements nearly all of gzip’s functionality, including decompression of .gz and .Z (Unix compress) files.
You can get the latest code, it needs latest version of zlib (1.2.3) to build.