How does this compare against pigz? [1]. Afaik pigz comes bundled in some modern distros, I’ve also personally used it in some backup operations reliably
That's generally true, but theoretically, pigz can extract single-member zip archives. I assume that they are both equally fast, assuming that they use zlib. libdeflate or ISA-L should speed this up significantly.
Furthermore, for compression, this still might be a valid question especially for the single-file case because it sounds like pzip parallelizes over the file members and cannot speed up compression/decompression of a single file member.
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How does this compare against pigz? [1]. Afaik pigz comes bundled in some modern distros, I’ve also personally used it in some backup operations reliably
[1]: https://zlib.net/pigz/
This appears to be for the .zip format, not gzip.
That's generally true, but theoretically, pigz can extract single-member zip archives. I assume that they are both equally fast, assuming that they use zlib. libdeflate or ISA-L should speed this up significantly.
Furthermore, for compression, this still might be a valid question especially for the single-file case because it sounds like pzip parallelizes over the file members and cannot speed up compression/decompression of a single file member.