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17 pointsscarythoughts12y ago3 comments

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I find my favorite use of GNU parallel is as a parallel drop in replacement for xargs.

wmf12y ago

BTW, bzip2 has been obsoleted by xz and the parallel version is called pxz.

xz is clearly superior in many regards. My understanding is that xz can use significantly more memory upon compression/decompression.

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I find my favorite use of GNU parallel is as a parallel drop in replacement for xargs.

wmf12y ago

BTW, bzip2 has been obsoleted by xz and the parallel version is called pxz.

xz is clearly superior in many regards. My understanding is that xz can use significantly more memory upon compression/decompression.

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