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diff --git a/archivers/lbzip2/pkg-descr b/archivers/lbzip2/pkg-descr index 1c23761043a3..2db31d3f25a3 100644 --- a/archivers/lbzip2/pkg-descr +++ b/archivers/lbzip2/pkg-descr @@ -1,13 +1,11 @@ -bzip2 is a free, multi-threaded compression utility with support for bzip2 -compressed file format. - -lbzip2 can process standard bz2 files in parallel. It uses POSIX threading +lbzip2 is an independent, multi-threaded implementation of bzip2 which +can process standard bz2 files in parallel. It uses POSIX threading model (pthreads), which allows it to take full advantage of the symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems. It has been proven to scale linearly, even -to over one hundred processor cores. +to over one hundred processor cores, and commonly considered the fastest +SMP (and uniprocessor) bzip2 compressor and decompressor. lbzip2 is fully compatible with bzip2 -- both at file format and command line level. Files created by lbzip2 can be decompressed by all versions -of bzip2 and other software supporting bz2 format. lbzip2 can decompress -any bz2 files in parallel. All bzip2 command-line options are also -accepted by lbzip2. This makes lbzip2 a drop-in replacement for bzip2. +of bzip2 and other software supporting bz2 format. This makes lbzip2 a +drop-in replacement for bzip2. |