unzip parallel, 3x faster than 7zip

[Timon Gehr]

On 04/05/2012 06:37 PM, dennis luehring wrote:
> Am 05.04.2012 16:04, schrieb Jay Norwood:
>> I uploaded a parallel unzip here, and the main in the examples
>> folder. Testing on my ssd drive, unzips a 2GB directory
>> structure in 17.5 secs. 7zip took 55 secs on the same file.
>
> it makes no sense to benchmark different algorithm zip<->7zip
>
> compare only unzip and parallel unzip - nothing else makes sense
>

I think he is talking about 7zip the standalone software, not 7zip the 
compression algorithm.

> 7zip took 55 secs _on the same file_.