Fast GZip Compression With PIGZ

Compressing TAR archives with GZip can be.. slow. What if you could use all the threads available on your CPU? You can with PIGZ!

Install on MacOS with Brew:

~$ brew install pigz

Compress tar archives with pigz (high compressionrate)

~$ tar cf DIRECTORY archive.tgz; pigz --best archive.tgz

Save them bits ?