FasterFASTA tool achieves 1.69 GB/s with multithreaded BGZ decoding

viglovikov · x · 2026-08-21

FasterFASTA, a Rust-based CLI tool for bioinformatics, optimizes performance by integrating decompression internally instead of using Unix pipes. This allows multi-threaded processing. Benchmarks show that block-oriented formats like BGZ reach 1.69 GB/s on 8 threads, significantly outperforming streaming formats like GZ and ZST.

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