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gpderetta on May 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, mu...

Nice! You should be able to do it without an index by periodically restarting the dictionary on compression and then looking for something resembling the dictionary, right?

mgerdts on May 12, 2023 [–]

Yeah, probably so at the cost of compatibility. As implemented, the .gz file can be used with `gzip -d`.

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