That's what I took out of it too. Sacrificed a bit of speed and a lot of memory for a smaller output size.
edit: ah, bzip3 is parallelizable, while bzip2 isn't. That alone is enough for me to be able to claim 'faster'.
edit: ah, bzip3 is parallelizable, while bzip2 isn't. That alone is enough for me to be able to claim 'faster'.
In practice it works, but it isn't pretty ;)
(context: I have had a situation where files created by pbzip2 on linux were not able to be decompressed with some library on .NET, but using lbzip2, they were. I never looked into the details.)