I normally compress using tar zcvf and decompress using tar zxvf (using gzip due to habit). I've recently gotten a quad core CPU with hyperthreading, so I have 8 logical cores, and I notice that ...

I am using pythons bz2 module to generate (and compress) a large jsonl file (bzip2 compressed 17GB). However, when I later try to decompress it using pbzip2 it only seems to use one CPU-core for d...

Say I have a bzip2 file (over 5GB), and I want to decompress only block #x, because there is where my data is (block is different every time). How would I do this? I thought about making an index ...