Re: [Bug-tar] a multithreaded tar ??

[Joerg Schilling]

Don Lindsay <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> Is anyone working on this?
>
> Now that multicore chips are everywhere, it seems like a worthwhile 
> feature. I did some crude measurements on a 4P box and saw the potential 
> for a decent speedup. [Specifically, untar of a .gz wasn't bottlenecked on 
> IO.]

What do you like to achive here and on which OS?

star runs as two processes since 12 years, an archive I/O process and a 
file I/O process.

Jörg

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