http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/21158/
it would be nice, if ubuntu would provide a facility, so that these parallel implementations could be used as drop-in replacement for the classic tools in order to make use of the processing power of current multiprocessor machines.

[368 votes] Solution #1: debian alternatives


[3 votes] Solution #2: use LZMA2


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In a most general way, any encoding processing ( video/music/crypto ) use a lot of CPU processing while decoding ( or decompressing ) is easier on CPU.

So here is my +1 for multi threading :)]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:59:18 +0000 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:02:52 +0000