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| author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2024-01-23 18:29:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2024-01-23 18:29:28 +0200 |
| commit | 6daa4d0ea46a8441f21f609149f3633158bf4704 (patch) | |
| tree | f8a3fd6fdc49b7eba8c421e3c944a02f8baaaf9c /src/xz/hardware.c | |
| parent | CI: Use RISC-V filter when building with BCJ support. (diff) | |
| download | xz-6daa4d0ea46a8441f21f609149f3633158bf4704.tar.xz | |
xz: Use threaded mode by defaut (as if --threads=0 was used).
This hopefully does more good than bad:
+ It's faster by default.
+ Only the threaded compressor creates files that
can be decompressed in threaded mode.
- Compression ratio is worse, usually not too much though.
When it matters, -T1 must be used.
- Memory usage increases.
- Scripts that assume single-threaded mode but don't use -T1 will
possibly use too much resources, for example, if they run
multiple xz processes in parallel to compress multiple files.
- Output from single-threaded and multi-threaded compressors
differ but such changes could happen for other reasons too
(they just haven't happened since 5.0.0).
Diffstat (limited to 'src/xz/hardware.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/xz/hardware.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/xz/hardware.c b/src/xz/hardware.c index c6948821..73bac4a9 100644 --- a/src/xz/hardware.c +++ b/src/xz/hardware.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ /// Maximum number of worker threads. This can be set with /// the --threads=NUM command line option. -static uint32_t threads_max = 1; +static uint32_t threads_max; /// True when the number of threads is automatically determined based /// on the available hardware threads. @@ -334,5 +334,9 @@ hardware_init(void) memlimit_mt_default = mem_ceiling; #endif + // Enable threaded mode by default. xz 5.4.x and older + // used single-threaded mode by default. + hardware_threads_set(0); + return; } |