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Originally Posted by Potato Uno
Does bzip2 parallelize the compression for a single file? Or does it use only one thread to compress data?
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The standard bzip2 doesn't, you need the pbzip2 executable for that.
Edit: Some quick googling implies that 7zip also uses the parallel algorithm when creating/extracting bz2 files.
Edit 2: A script for 7zip would have to be rewritten, as the output filename is mandatory in 7zip.
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