for the last 14 years of my career, I was using stupidly overpowered Oracle exadata systems exclusively, so “slow” meant 3 seconds instead of 1.

Now that I’m retired, I pretty much never need to compress anything.

tar cvjf compressed-shit.tar.bz2 /path/to/uncompressed/shit/

Only way to fly.

RFC 2549 is such an important improvement over RFC 1149. Everyone should adopt the updated standard.