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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:35:07 -0400
- From: Stefan Monnier <sm86+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: ZOO/ZIP/ARC/LZH
- In-Reply-To: <1992Sep1.014304.22255@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Sep1.014304.22255@actrix.gen.nz>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 1-Sep-92 ZOO/ZIP/ARC/LZH
- Steven.Wells@bbs.actrix. (2562)
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- > The overall ratings - taking into consideration, the time taken,
- > and the relative compression gained within that time (the total
- > averages), are as follows:
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- > Speed Compression
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- > The winner: ZIP (Default) 1st 3rd
- > #2 : ZIP (Deflate) 4th 1st
- > #3 : ZOO (Default) 3rd 4th
- > #4 : ARC 2nd 5th
- > #5 : LHarc 5th 2nd=
- > Last : ZOO (High compression method) 6th 2nd=
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- > Versions used:
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- > ST-ZIP v2
- > LHarc v2.01L
- > ARC v6.02
- > ZOO v2.14
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- You can use different weighting for the importance of speed
- compared to size ! Of course, LHarc is the worse if time is important
- as it always uses a slow but quite efficient algo.
- If size is more important, on the other hand, it will be 2nd !
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- One thing is sure: ZIP is the best in this bechmark !
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- For the rest, you can interpret the result as you wish !
- Personnally, I only use archives for their size (to store on
- floppy, or just to gain room on my small HD) so that
- speed is not really an issue but size is !
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- If I want to be fast, I just don't compress at all!
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- Stefan Monnier
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