[Zlib-devel] pigz 1.6 available for testing

[Mark Adler]

On Apr 3, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Greg Roelofs wrote:
> so I'm mainly curious about what the extra
> bytes add (other than bulk ;-) ).

That is an empty stored block put at the end of each block of  
compressed data to bring it to a byte boundary.  That permits  
concatenation of the compressed blocks from different threads.  If  
you use pigz -p 1 (no threads), then you won't see that.

Mark