There are also a parallel versions of bzip2 (pbzip2), lzip (plzip), xz (pixz).
Depending upon the data, the non-threaded versions of these utilities can have higher performance when run with some kind of dispatcher on multiple files.
The GNU xargs utility is able to do this, and the relevant features are also in busybox.
Depending upon the data, the non-threaded versions of these utilities can have higher performance when run with some kind of dispatcher on multiple files.
The GNU xargs utility is able to do this, and the relevant features are also in busybox.