Re: better default support for parallel compression

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/3/21 22:13, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> with the rise of commodity multicore computing, tar feels a bit antiquated in
> that it still defaults to single (de)compression.  it feels like the defaults
> could & should be more intelligent.  has any thought been given to supporting
> parallel (de)compression by default ?

Not really. Some thought would be required, I assume. For example, 
parallelizing decompression might hurt performance, as 'tar' is 
typically I/O bound in that case. It'd be nice if someone could think 
this through and do some performance measures.