pigz is a parallel implementation of gzip.
Benchmark
Input file size: 318,085,120 bytes (IRC logs)
Results (8 CPU 3ghz Xeon, 2MB cache):
compressor |
gzip |
pigz |
gzip -9 |
pigz -9 |
time |
32.759s |
8.654s |
39.729s |
9.899s |
output size |
194,203,712 |
194,263,568 |
194,020,313 |
194,078,112 |