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Best Archive Tool / Re: Versions??
« on: February 26, 2011, 02:20 PM »
@Shades:
You may well be right in that WinRAR may have the "better" interface (e.g., You can browse and manage archives quite easily with it, and it seems quite intuitive), but this would depend on the subjective judgement from the personal (user) perception.
However, on your other point, it seems to me that the differential between the "absolute best" compression ratios and/or processing times between compression products might not be all that significant nowadays, given technology/efficiency advances, including, for example:
Thankyou for the link to http://www.maximumcompression.com
Good knowledge content!
To add to that link, there are a couple of general and related links which were provided by others in the discussion thread above, which I repeat below for our convenience and to put them together here with your link. They too have good knowledge content:
Wikipedia - Comparison of file managers
Wikipedia -Comparison of file archivers
You may well be right in that WinRAR may have the "better" interface (e.g., You can browse and manage archives quite easily with it, and it seems quite intuitive), but this would depend on the subjective judgement from the personal (user) perception.
However, on your other point, it seems to me that the differential between the "absolute best" compression ratios and/or processing times between compression products might not be all that significant nowadays, given technology/efficiency advances, including, for example:
- adding hundreds of Gigabytes of extra disk storage comes at virtually little or no extra marginal cost;
- hard drive (disk) access times (read/write) are continually being increased;
- CPU cycle frequencies (speed or cycles per second) - in serial and/or parallel processing schemes - seem to be continuing to go up at an impressive rate with each new CPU brought out by the chipmakers - again at little or no extra marginal cost;
- the move to 64-bit technology and associated higher bandwidth bus sizes contributing to increased throughput and reduced access/fetch times in RAM/CPUs;
- RAM cycle frequencies (speed) continuing to increase;
Thankyou for the link to http://www.maximumcompression.com
Good knowledge content!
To add to that link, there are a couple of general and related links which were provided by others in the discussion thread above, which I repeat below for our convenience and to put them together here with your link. They too have good knowledge content:
Wikipedia - Comparison of file managers
Wikipedia -Comparison of file archivers