: Output is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer, meaning files compressed with PBZIP2 can be opened by standard bzip2 tools.
PBZIP2 is a multi-threaded version of the standard file compressor. It is designed to significantly speed up compression and decompression by utilizing multiple CPU cores simultaneously on SMP machines. Key Technical Features SF PBzip
: It breaks files into pieces and compresses each piece individually across different threads. : Output is fully compatible with bzip2 v1