Comment on Many times faster (de)compression using multiple processors.parentComments−alecco14yBut what's the compression ratio and what's the test data?−joshbaptiste14yTest data josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024K count=1000 josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ gzip -l test.gz compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 1176024 1048576000 99.9% test.txt with -p2 it runs ~2 sec slower−alecco14yFor that kind of data you can just use RLE instead. It's the trivial case (an edge case in fact).
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But what's the compression ratio and what's the test data?
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with -p2 it runs ~2 sec slowerFor that kind of data you can just use RLE instead. It's the trivial case (an edge case in fact).