Re: Plan to support add multithread support to gzip ?

[Paul Eggert]

"Vidal, Bruno" <address@hidden> writes:

> I try to find if it is planned to add support to MP systems (by using posix 
> thread) or not in gzip, in order to speed up compression/decompression of a 
> single file. I didn't find any plan or question about this in the archive of 
> this list.
>
> In fact, I don't know if it's possible (I didn't yet go throught the gzip 
> code in order to see if it's possible), so if there is not yet any plan, do 
> you think that the gzip structure is able to support that ?

There aren't any plans right now, now.  gzip would require substantial 
reworking.