pbzip2 isn't faster

[Christopher Jones]

> The only reservation I have is inexperience with lbzip2, and at least one comparison I saw cited high memory requirements and out of memory crashes with lbzip2. I will have to find the page when I'm back at a computer, and it may very well have been addressed by now.

That applies to anything, until you use it for the first time ;)

But yes, if it has issues like these you describe, we should test it. I would bet though that if it did have such problems, they would be fixed pretty sharpish ...

> 
> Not being updated in a while is not a bad sign for a tool you just want to work.

Apologies, I wasn’t intending to imply it was better maintained than pbzip2, just to seems to have good support of its own upstream. The fact Fedora plans to switch to it is also I think a good sign.

> 
> The unzipping anything in parallel, however, is a distinct advantage, and makes it worth examining.

I think, if true, it would be a killer point, as it would mean we would benefit automatically, with existing archives. 

> 
>   - Eric

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/attachments/20140406/b9cbccd5/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 2030 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/attachments/20140406/b9cbccd5/attachment.p7s>