From f3a34d376ecea15be8eb56a386317d25f2e67249 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Hanson Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 15:18:42 +0200 Subject: system/pbzip2: Initial import --- system/pbzip2/README | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 system/pbzip2/README (limited to 'system/pbzip2/README') diff --git a/system/pbzip2/README b/system/pbzip2/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f5cdb8f284 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/pbzip2/README @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Parallel BZIP2 (PBZIP2) - Data Compression Software + +PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor +that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The +output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer (ie: +anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with bzip2). + +PBZIP2 should work on any system that has a pthreads compatible C++ compiler +(such as gcc). It has been tested on: Linux, Windows (cygwin & MinGW), +Solaris, Tru64/OSF1, HP-UX, and Irix. -- cgit v1.2.3