lbzip2 ☆

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Description:
Parallel bzip2 utility

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: compression parallel bzip2 utility performance

Install: brew install lbzip2

About:
Lbzip2 is a multi-threaded implementation of the bzip2 compression utility. It leverages parallel processing to significantly speed up compression and decompression tasks on multi-core systems. This makes it an efficient drop-in replacement for standard bzip2 when handling large files.

Key Features:

Multi-threaded for high performance on multi-core CPUs
Drop-in replacement for standard bzip2
Efficiently handles large files
Supports standard bzip2 format

Use Cases:

Compressing large datasets or log files faster
Parallel decompression of existing bzip2 archives
Improving throughput in data processing pipelines

Alternatives:

pbzip2 – Similar parallel bzip2 implementation; lbzip2 is often cited for its performance and low resource usage.
bzip2 – The standard single-threaded tool; lbzip2 offers significant speedups on multi-core machines.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 14, 2024 9:04pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	2011bbe6
Sep 30, 2023 8:09pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	9d768d66