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pigz

A parallel implementation of gzip

https://www.zlib.net/pigz/

Available Versions

Version amd64 x86 alpha arm arm64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 riscv sparc
2.8  : 0 amd64 x86 ~alpha arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ppc ppc64 ~riscv sparc

Package Metadata

  • Upstream
    https://github.com/madler/pigz
  • Full description
    pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
  • USE flags
    Global Use Flags
  • License
    ZLIB
  • Maintainer(s)
    Georgy Yakovlev