lrzip-0.22 has several new features and a major bug fix!

FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS

-g option. Now supports gzip compression. Very fast!
Expanded dictionary buffer size in lzma compressor.
Variable, expanded dictionary size buffer in both lzma
 compressor and decompressor.
Improved output during compression when using -vv.
Multi-threading supprt when using multiple processors
 or dual core processors when using lzma compression.
 This results in a nearly 2x speed improvement.
Assembler module support to speed up CRC checking.
Improvements in autotools usage, system detection
 and Makefile enhancements.
Lrzip now has a timer that will print total time
 at the end of a compression or decompression if
 -q command line option is not used.

BUG FIX!!!

Even though lrzip uses a compression threshold to
prevent the lzma compressor from getting data that
may not be compressible, there was still a possibility
that lrzip could hang. This was because a data chunk
could contain an uncompressible segment and if the
lzma compressor got it, it would hang.

THANKS TO LASSE COLLIN for uncovering the error in
the lzma wrapper code that was causing the hangup.

January 2008
Peter Hyman
pete@peterhyman.com
