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Do you use 7-Zip files?
Darwin:
OK... thanks for the clarification of NO and NEVER. I didn't notice the choice for never when I voted - can I change my vote?!
jdd:
If I knew how, I would change the vote. But you could also think of it this way. In the end, when the statistics are compiled, a vote for 'Never' is like a 'No +' , whereas a 'Sometimes' is like a 'Yes - '. Will that suffice?
Darwin:
OK - that'll do... Sorry to have been so dim!
Tekzel:
Tekzel: when compressing files of roughly 4.7GB of size (*cough*), speed is certainly an issue. Also, WinRAR can practically be used as a backup tool because of all it's commandline options, as well as unicode filename support, NTFS security & alternate streams support, etc...
Now, if 7zip was actually cleanly written and was extended to have the same support as winrar...
-f0dder (April 26, 2007, 03:58 PM)
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F0dder, I *cough* don't sit there and stare at my screen when compressing a large amount of data. I let it go and do something else! Either way I don't believe the difference is enough to make it worth worrying about, and I KNOW it isn't enough for ME to worry about. :)
2stepsback:
Hi all,
IMO, in the near future, when dual cores will get everywhere and quad cores will be common, and the standard RAM will be 512MB, (coders/designers: 2GB), isn't there some obvious way that the *slow* .7z compression will get fixed?
Of course we'll also stack up HD-DVD's / BluRay's so that .zip is fine as well.
So, then what happens?
opinions, predictions?
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