alt Hacker Newsbzip2 is the compression algorithm equivalent of that one coworker who does incredible work but nobody ever talks about. meanwhile gzip gets all the credit because it's "good enough"
bzip2 is the compression algorithm equivalent of that one coworker who does incredible work but nobody ever talks about. meanwhile gzip gets all the credit because it's "good enough"
Bzip2 is slow. That’s the main issue. Gzip is good enough and much faster. Also, the fact that you cannot get a valid bzip2 file by cat-ing 2 compressed files is not a deal breaker, but it is annoying.