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[Rui Paulo]

On Feb 8, 2015, at 22:20, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Author: rpaulo
> Date: Mon Feb  9 06:20:34 2015
> New Revision: 278433
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/278433
> 
> Log:
>  Merge xz 5.2.0.
> 
>  This brings support for multi-threaded compression.  This brings close
>  N times faster compression where N is the number of CPU cores.
>  Because of this, liblzma now depends on libthr.

For those that want to try it, this patch adds support to multi-threaded compression when using lzma in libarchive:

	https://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/libarchive-lzma-mt.diff

It uses all the available CPU cores by default.

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Rui Paulo