Open Source Alternatives to pigz

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What is pigz?

pigz is a parallel implementation of gzip that uses multiple processors and cores to compress data significantly faster than traditional gzip.. There are currently 2 open-source alternatives to pigz, with a combined total of 552 GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Rust.

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crabzsstadick/crabz

A fast, cross-platform, multi-threaded compression and decompression CLI tool written in Rust.

37213Rust

8 days ago

gzpsstadick/gzp

A Rust crate for multi-threaded compression and decompression, supporting Gzip, Zlib, Snappy, BGZF, and Mgzip formats.

18015Rust

15 days ago

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