rrwick
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7 years ago That's a good idea and was a fairly easy one to implement, so I've added it to the current release: v0.2.2. Give it a try!
I'll close this issue now, but let me know if there are any issues and I'll reopen it.
In some cases the gzip compression time clearly dominates the whole running time. The reason is that plain gzip is used. I would suggest checking whether pigz is present, and if yes - then forward ---threads option to pigz to allow much faster parallel compression.