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		mikepurvis on May 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, mu... I built a custom dpkg with parallel xz for speeding up the compression of large omni style deb packages. Totally worth it.

mikepurvis on May 12, 2023 [–]

Turns out it was longer ago than I thought— way back in the Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 days:

https://launchpad.net/~mikepurvis/+archive/ubuntu/dpkg

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