[Zlib-devel] pigz 2.1.4 available

[Mark Adler]

On Nov 13, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Mark Adler wrote:
> 1.  Decompression is so fast, I have yet to find a situation where a  
> large inflation was not i/o bound with a single processor.

Funny thing is, I just got my new MacBook Air a few days ago with a  
solid state drive, and I had yet to do any pigz testing on it.  It  
turns out that with the SSD, inflate is not i/o bound, so I do get a  
small benefit from the parallel decompression.  I get about 98%  
processor utilization with no threading and 114% processor utilization  
with threading.  The real-time differences on the test file were 1.33  
seconds vs. 1.24 seconds.  Nothing to write home about, but still an  
observable gain.

Mark