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PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file
compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on
SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with
bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be
decompressed with bzip2).