Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> So no, you have to receive at least X bytes of input before you can emit
> any output, but on the other hand you don't need to hold several GB of
> data in memory all at once just to compress it.
> 

I'm still pretty sure you'll need the whole file in case of bzip2. But
while looking at the system(1), it's a multi-layer format and needs
multiple steps to decompress.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2

-Aero

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