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On 01/08/2016 10:22 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> xz gives better compression results than bzip/gz but is often slower.
> Using parallel compression mitigates this somewhat and is particularly
> useful for the SDK.

xz as of 5.2.0 allows for multi-threaded compression.

http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD