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		malux85 51 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust Yeah came here to say a 14% speed up in compression is pretty good!

aidenn0 51 days ago | [–]

bzip2 (particularly parallel implementations thereof) are already relatively competitive for compression. The decompression time is where it lags behind because lz77 based algorithms can be incredibly fast at decompression.

koakuma-chan 51 days ago | [–]

It's blazingly fast

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