Hi,
so far we compress a large number of giant fastq files using gzip. I just come upon this parallel version
of gzip called pigz:
http://zlib.net/pigz/
written by the same guy who wrote zlib and gzip itself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Adler
It is about to 3.8x faster on 4 cores machine than gzip.
Before falling for it head first, simple question: does anybody used it for some time without problems?
Best,
Darek
so far we compress a large number of giant fastq files using gzip. I just come upon this parallel version
of gzip called pigz:
http://zlib.net/pigz/
written by the same guy who wrote zlib and gzip itself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Adler
It is about to 3.8x faster on 4 cores machine than gzip.
Before falling for it head first, simple question: does anybody used it for some time without problems?
Best,
Darek
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