Seth

Preview: using passthrough single threaded mode when 0 or 1 threads is selected (just like pigz): ``` ❯ hyperfine './target/release/crabz -c 3 -p 1 < ../gzp/bench-data/shakespeare.txt' 'pigz -3 -p 1...

README updated with exhaustive benchmarks comparing different backends as well as a summary of the findings. The surprise to me is that the rust backend is a tad faster than...

It can, and I have benchmarked it. Crabz and bgzip have nearly identical performance. I didn't include anything other than pigz just because I don't intended for this to become...

Correct! For just compressing / decompressing bgzf format files `crabz` could replace `bgzip`, however `bgzip` does bring all the extras along for generating an index etc (which I would like...

@jelber2 I finally added some! https://github.com/sstadick/crabz#crabz-pigz-and-bgzip Also for what it's worth I ended up trying a bit harder to get pugz to work: https://twitter.com/ducktapeprogra1/status/1443723380436385792?s=20 tl;dr; it's not useful in its...

Note that some of the original benchmarks for the different backends are a bit out of date at this point and `crabz` has gotten faster across the board, but the...

@reitermarkus, Are github issues not on for your fork? Also, if you are interested in help maintaining, I would be more than happy to help.

This would still be incredibly useful!

But if this gets merged it's no big deal https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-htslib/pull/341

I would very much like for both of those things to happen! If someone else starts on that before I do I'm more than happy to accommodate that / help...