Use multiple CPU Cores with your Linux commands

17 points by scarythoughts 12 years ago | 3 comments

devicenull 12 years ago |

I find my favorite use of GNU parallel is as a parallel drop in replacement for xargs.

wmf 12 years ago |

BTW, bzip2 has been obsoleted by xz and the parallel version is called pxz.

iamthad 12 years ago | |

xz is clearly superior in many regards. My understanding is that xz can use significantly more memory upon compression/decompression.