On: A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi...

[dorfsmay]

If you know that what you compress is alphabetised text, and space is more important to you than time, then please use lzips over gzips. For a parallel version:

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html

[0x0 → dorfsmay]

Is this gunzip-compatible? If not, then as long as gzip remains the only viable/compatible compression mode for HTTP I think advances in gzip compression is still valuable.

[dorfsmay → 0x0]

No it's not. Lzip is more useful for storing text long term, or send very large text file as email attachments.

Text log file and database dump in text usually generate very large text file, lzip can reduce their size by a factor of 5 to 10, compared to gzips.

[eyelidlessness → 0x0]

I don't think the comment you replied to suggested that gzip is not valuable, only that there's specialized compression available for a special case (alphabetized data).