Hacker News
- Bzip3 – A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2 https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3 104 comments
- Bzip2 in Rust: porting the randomization table https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/bzip2-in-rust-randomization-table.html 9 comments
- Linux compressors comparison: lzo vs. lz4 vs. gzip vs. bzip2 vs. lzma http://www.ilsistemista.net/index.php/linux-a-unix/44-linux-compressors-comparison-on-centos-6-5-x86-64-lzo-vs-lz4-vs-gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-lzma.html 2 comments
- Happy new year and goodbye bzip2 https://www.kernel.org/happy-new-year-and-good-bye-bzip2.html 31 comments
- Massive Speed Gains via Parallelized BZIP2 Compression http://hackercodex.com/guide/parallel-bzip-compression/ 38 comments
- Multicore version of bzip2 compression utility http://www.cilk.com/multicore-blog/bid/9185/A-Parallel-bzip2 5 comments
Lobsters
- Parallel BZIP2 (PBZIP2) http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ 2 comments unix
- bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3 20 comments c
- GitHub - kspalaiologos/bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3 2 comments programming
- undo-fu-session (persistent undo) now supports changing compression (bzip2, gz, xz, zstd) https://gitlab.com/ideasman42/emacs-undo-fu-session 7 comments emacs
- Anyone needing/missing bzip2 support? https://golang.org/src/compress/bzip2/bzip2.go 5 comments elixir
- Pure Rust bzip2 decompressor implementation https://crates.io/crates/bzip2-rs 13 comments rust
- Bzip2 in Rust: porting the randomization table https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/bzip2-in-rust-randomization-table.html 15 comments rust
- Bzip2 in Rust: porting the randomization table https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/bzip2-in-rust-randomization-table.html 9 comments linux
- bzip2 has a new maintainer, build system, and official repository, so I made an AUR PKGBUILD for it https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bzip2-git 6 comments archlinux
- Bzip2 possibly being rewritten in rust. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=bzip2-revival-2019 10 comments rust
- Maintaining bzip2 (needs your help, too!) https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/maintaining-bzip2.html 41 comments linux
- Bzip2 in Rust - Basic infrastructure and CRC32 computation https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/bzip2-in-rust-basic-infra.html 10 comments rust
- Bzip2 in Rust - Basic infrastructure and CRC32 computation https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/bzip2-in-rust-basic-infra.html 6 comments linux
- Round 3: Compression Comparison Benchmarks: zstd vs brotli vs pigz vs bzip2 vs xz https://community.centminmod.com/threads/round-3-compression-comparison-benchmarks-zstd-vs-brotli-vs-pigz-vs-bzip2-vs-xz-etc.17259/ 14 comments programming
- bzip2 Archive Inflating to 1,400,000x its Size aka Decompression Bomb https://youtu.be/1ds-Q04TD98 18 comments linux
- [Serious] Why do packages use LZMA2 compression rather than bzip2? https://www.xda-developers.com/google-brotli-compression-faster-ota-updates/ 19 comments archlinux
- Is this useful to anyone? I pulled out bitReader from the standard bzip2 package because I had need of a bitReader. https://github.com/adammfrank/bitreader 3 comments golang
- Simplifying Parallel Applications for C++, An Example Parallel Bzip2 using RaftLib with Performance Comparison https://medium.com/cat-dev-urandom/simplifying-parallel-applications-for-c-an-example-parallel-bzip2-using-raftlib-with-performance-f69cc8f7f962 3 comments cpp
- A really basic BZip2 utility I wrote to practice using camlbz2 https://github.com/chrismamo1/zipper 5 comments ocaml
- Just a reminder: on multi core systems use pigz, pixz or lbzip2 instead of gzip, xz or bzip2. http://zlib.net/pigz/ 106 comments linux
- F21 System Wide Change: lbzip2 as default bzip2 implementation https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-april/197352.html 4 comments linux
- Happy new year and good-bye bzip2 https://kernel.org/happy-new-year-and-good-bye-bzip2.html 43 comments linux
- kernel.org: Happy new year and good-bye bzip2 https://kernel.org/happy-new-year-and-good-bye-bzip2.html 5 comments kernel
- Use multiple CPU Cores with your Linux commands -- awk, sed, bzip2, grep, wc, etc. | RankFocus - Systems and Data http://www.rankfocus.com/use-cpu-cores-linux-commands/ 11 comments commandline
- Use multiple CPU Cores with your Linux commands -- awk, sed, bzip2, grep, wc, etc. http://www.rankfocus.com/use-cpu-cores-linux-commands/ 206 comments programming
- TIL compression algorithms like gzip and bzip2 can be used to perform pattern recognition http://books.google.ca/books?id=bv8meskhad4c&lpg=pa203&ots=otndgippqp&dq=data%20compression%20-%20a%20generic%20principle%20of%20pattern%20recognition&pg=pa204#v=onepage&q&f=false 6 comments programming
- Hole closed in bzip2 compression tool http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/hole-closed-in-bzip2-compression-tool-1082837.html 9 comments programming
- [boring] If you're a casual or frequent bzip2 user and not afraid of compiling, please consider testing lbzip2-0.16rc1; it might speed up your (de)compression tasks. Thank you. http://freshmeat.net/projects/lbzip2/releases/307065 90 comments programming
- Parallel bzip2 http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ 47 comments programming
- Multicore-enabled version of bzip2 compression utility (i.e., a parallel bzip2) http://www.cilk.com/multicore-blog/bid/9185/a-parallel-bzip2 24 comments programming
- How to think about compression, and the case against bzip2 http://changelog.complete.org/archives/910-how-to-think-about-compression 58 comments programming
- Compression: gzip vs bzip2 vs 7-zip - A trade-off between time and space http://blogs.reucon.com/srt/2008/02/18/compression_gzip_vs_bzip2_vs_7_zip.html 45 comments programming
- Better Compression than bzip2 for modern file sizes. http://rzip.samba.org/ 32 comments programming