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[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.9-rc2 released
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Antonio Diaz Diaz |
Subject: |
[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.9-rc2 released |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 22:50:32 +0200 |
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 |
Plzip 1.9-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.9-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.9-rc2.tar.gz
The sha256sums are:
75bff5d6583739cb1ac5ea3ee622f00ed5dcf2ada0fb86503d7933e88eb066f8
plzip-1.9-rc2.tar.lz
812e0168503f88d4e34ba01f06f7011759cc2c2f54833e85141d856613d3ccba
plzip-1.9-rc2.tar.gz
Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) implementation of lzip, fully
compatible with lzip 1.4 or newer. Plzip uses the compression library lzlib.
Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one
of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel-Ziv-Markov
chain-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format, chosen to maximize safety and
interoperability. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0) or
compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is
intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from
a data recovery perspective. Lzip has been designed, written, and tested
with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general-purpose
compressed format for unix-like systems.
Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines much
faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression ratio (0.4
to 2 percent larger compressed files). Note that the number of usable
threads is limited by file size; on files larger than a few GB plzip can use
hundreds of processors, but on files of only a few MB plzip is no faster
than lzip.
The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term archiving,
taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
Changes in this version:
* The new option '--check-lib', which compares the version of lzlib used
to compile plzip with the version actually being used, has been added.
* Testing is now slightly (1.6%) faster when using lzlib 1.12-rc2.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a human right. Free Catalan political prisoners.
--
If you care about interoperability and long-term archiving, please help me
replace xz with lzip. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Thanks.
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