This roundup focuses on lossless compression tools which use multiple cores. Only free and open source software is included here.
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Tag: multi-core
plzip – massively parallel lossless data compressor based on lzlib
Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor based on the lzlib compression library.
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lbzip2 – parallel bzip2 compression utility
lbzip2 integrates well with tar. Even on single-core computers, lbzip2 can speed up archiving in combination with tar.
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BZip3 – spiritual successor to BZip2
BZip3 is a powerful lossless compressor for Linux with multithreading, large block sizes, command-line utilities and a reusable library.
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pbzip2 – parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor
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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pixz – parallel, indexed xz compressor
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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pigz – parallel implementation of gzip
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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Best Linux Multi-Core Compression Tools
This article surveys compression software that makes full use of multi-core processors when compressing files. Many of the tools also offer decompression speedups too.
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