Subject: Re: [bug#33643] [PATCH] gnu-build-system: Enable xz to decompress in parallel.

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:24:29 -0500

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 04:32:01PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> If the tarball is compressed in parallel then it can be decompressed in
> parallel.

The xz documentation says that parallel decompression is not
implemented? Is that no longer the case?

> As for compressing in parallel, it *might work* to pass it through our
> non-bootstrap tar for 'tar --sort=name' and then pass it through xz
> -T(pick-a-num).

That could be helpful!