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Best file archiver/compresser
Dormouse:
May be some will uninstall 7Zip, Winrar and change to FreeArc but most will only use it when better compression is required
-Bamse (March 15, 2010, 08:34 PM)
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But on the table cited on the FreeArc page, FreeArc does not have the most compression (marginally less even than WinRar) just fast compression. And they only claim themselves to have the fastest compression (to the same level of compression as the others).
Bamse:
Depends on how you read tables but if you click Benchmark link at their site you see
As net result, FreeArc provides the same compression ratio as zip/bzip2/rar/7-zip (in different modes) while being 1.5–3x faster, and in maximum compression mode it compress 2-10% better than 7-zip while providing the same speed. Make sure of this yourself by looking at test results or by performing your own benchmarks.
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I have found that to be true though could not care less about speed. When there is need for better compression time is not high priority. Many options when packing, one requires 2gb ram to extract 8) You have to know them all to evaluate tables. Test.
The PAQ one Tuxman seems to be supported in PeaZip so should be easy to use? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ Might be even better than FreeArc then. Looks like crap in "Results sorted on compressor efficiency" tables but not relevant.
Bamse:
Nope, PAQ is not an option. Time becomes a priority when it take 10+ min to pack 50mb on fastest setting. I gave up at default and maximum. The others are snappy.
Total Commander folder zipped:
7Z Ultra lzma 11.863.385
7Z Ultra lzma2 11.839.834
ARC best 11.455.354
PAQ8O fastest 11.004.214
WinRAR best 12.950.766
PeaZip is apparently not optimized for FreeArc, when program itself is used result improves
ARC best 11.340.604
Too bad WinRK is payware http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_mf.php
Tuxman:
Packing files for redistribution is also a question of the supported platforms. Neither PAQ nor 7zip are actually an option, .7z on Linux is still quite unusual.
Jibz:
Packing files for redistribution is also a question of the supported platforms. Neither PAQ nor 7zip are actually an option, .7z on Linux is still quite unusual.
-Tuxman (March 16, 2010, 04:17 AM)
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There has been some work to give 7z a more gzip/bzip2 like interface to make it easier to adopt in linux etc.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz
http://tukaani.org/xz/
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