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Re: Does gzip support multiple processors under windows 2000?
- To: Ilan Rabinovitch <Ilan dot Rabinovitch at dig dot com>
- Subject: Re: Does gzip support multiple processors under windows 2000?
- From: Andrew Markebo <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>
- Date: 22 Mar 2001 23:58:58 +0100
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <EC3E0254124DF24BA99CB316CE43F5C8250B46@la-ex0.corp.dig.com>
/ Ilan Rabinovitch <Ilan.Rabinovitch@dig.com> wrote:
| Im trying to compress 1 large file. Im work with machines that have 4 procs
| and I figured if I could get gzip to take advantage of smp it might compress
| these files faster.
|
| Ilan
Split the file into four parts and run them through 1 gzip each.. :-)
Hack a program that reads from 4 places in that file and pipes the
contents to four gzips..
Or do a program that can gzip from a certain position in a file to an
end..
*hmm* The possibilities are endless :-)
/Andy
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