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We've compiled a list of 15 free and paid alternatives to pigz. The primary competitors include 7-Zip, WinRAR. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between pigz and PeaZip, IZArc, WinZip. Also you can look at other similar options here: File Management Tools.
PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc...
IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE...
is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier.
pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip...
pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip...
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pigz, which stands for Parallel Implementation of GZip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
pigz was written by Mark Adler, and uses the zlib and pthread libraries.
This version of pigz is written to be portable across Unix-style operating
systems that provide the zlib and pthread libraries.
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