Best Linux Multi-Core Compression Tools

Posted by sde on Jan 9, 2019 2:16 PM EDT
LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms
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Popular lossless compression tools include gzip, bzip2, and xz. When compressing and decompressing files these tools use a single core. But these days, most people run machines with multi-core processors. You won’t see the speed advantage modern processors offer with the traditional tools. Step forward modern compression tools that use all the cores present on your system when compressing files, offering massive speed advantages.

Let’s check out the multi-core compression tools. See our time and size charts. And at the end of each page, there’s a table with links to a dedicated page for each of the multi-core tools setting out, in detail, their respective features.

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