OSTEP project: parallel zip (pzip)

Parallelize a run-length encoder, then measure speedup against thread count to locate the serial and I/O-bound parts.

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The exercise happens on OSTEP projects. Canonical link: https://github.com/remzi-arpacidusseau/ostep-projects/tree/master/concurrency-pzip. Link check: not checked (5 Oct 2026). Opened from this app 0 times; opening is not counted as an attempt.

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Supports: A small, honest Amdahl experiment: you write the parallel code and measure where scaling stops.

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