File Compression in the Multi-Core Era

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File Compression in the Multi-Core Era

March 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror publishes a practical entry comparing the efficiency of two common compression algorithms 7zip and bzip2 in the new 8 core processor desktop. Also read the comments for more information about the big differences between the algorithms.

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