{{tag>gzip compression}}

====== Compress or decompress files faster ======
Instead of gzip try [[https://www.htslib.org/doc/bgzip.html|bgzip]]. On Ubuntu install with

  sudo apt-get install tabix

Example decompression of 161.7 GB file to 512.1 GB with 8 threads :
  time bgzip -d --threads 8 win1_nvme01n1.img.gz 
   
  real    70m56,540s
  user    15m50,506s
  sys     4m26,017s

====== Tested on ======
  * Ubuntu 22.04.2
  * bgzip 1.13+ds

====== See also ======

====== References ======
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K75Kc5EyB8Y