Long Range Zip (Lrzip) is a compression program that can achieve very high compression ratios and speed when used with large files.
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Long Range Zip (Lrzip) is a compression program that can achieve very high compression ratios and speed when used with large files.
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BZip3 bills itself as a “better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2”.
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PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines.
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bzip2 is a high-quality data compressor. This utility typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques.
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gzip provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which are also the default compression tools for Debian.
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pixz is a parallel, indexed xz compressor. pixz produces a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible.
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lzop is a file compressor which is very similar to gzip. lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services.
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pigz is a fully functional replacement for gzip that uses multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
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Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data.
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Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios.
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