[ITP] pbzip2 (and what was the upshot on pbzip2/libbz2 incompatibility?)

[Peter Li]

On 8/9/11 11:51 AM, Peter Li wrote:
> In light of this, perhaps I should benchmark the cygwin compiled 
> version to make sure it is reasonable to use this rather than 
> insisting on the windows binary.  Will report back.
>
> P
Not too surprising, but the Cygwin version does fine.  Rough benchmarks 
on my 2 core hyperthreaded laptop decompressing a 900K block size 1.5 GB 
data file:
     bzip2: ~ 180 s
     pbzip2 Cygwin: 93 s
     pbzip2 win32 native: 86 s

Will announce.
P