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- Subject: Re: ZOO/ZIP/ARC/LZH
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.201655.20955@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steven.Wells@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:16:55 GMT
- Sender: Steven.Wells@actrix.gen.nz (Steven Wells)
- References: <1992Sep1.014304.22255@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Sep2.143343.29691@cs.unca.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep2.143343.29691@cs.unca.edu> mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:
- > Zoo says 'default' -- but it has a higher compression option too!
- > It takes longer, but does a better job. This tradeoff should be
- > taken into account.
- >
- > Zoo is a lot more user-friendly than the other archivers, too. :)
- >
- > Besides, to function with an atari getting stuff from the net, you
- > really need *all* archivers installed on your system, or at least
- > on your net-connected (UNIX) system so you can unpack and repack
- > the archives before downloading them.
-
-
- ZOO is only user-friendly if you are being pointless and running UNIX
- on an ST. RUnning it from standard GEM, you can't re-direct it's
- output, which is a real nuisance! ZOO, ARC, and LHarc can all be told
- where to put their extracted files/archived files once they have
- extracted/archived them!
-
- I have shown the 'High compression' method of ZOO. It takes a LONG
- time - and gets about the same compression as Lh5 (LHarc), it's slow
- speed is it's only MAJOR draw-back, optimising the code a bit, and
- speeding up the routines would make it quite usable! (Also adding a
- re-direction for the GEM users, the numbers of which seem to be very
- small in an Atari message area - seems quite illogical!)
-
- ZOO's compression isn't bad as seen here:
-
- Compression (% of original size)
-
- ZIP (Deflate) 37
- LHarc 38
- ZOO (Slow mode) 38 (10 bytes bigger than LHarc)
- ZIP (Default) 41
- ZOO (Default) 56
- ARC 58
-
- 10-bytes difference is not much - especially as the file-size is
- always rounded up to the nearest 1k, as more than one program can't
- occupy the same sector on the disk - so GEM reserves it for that
- program/file, and so a 689 byte file, is actually 1k big (1024 bytes).
-
- Unfortunately - this good compression, loses out on the speed: (Note
- 'Slow Mode' is the 'High Compression' mode of ZOO)
-
- Time taken:
-
- ZIP (Default) 36 secs
- ZOO (Default) 45 secs
- ARC 50 secs
- ZIP (Deflate) 61 secs
- LHarc 62 secs
- ZOO (Slow mode) 90 secs
-
- it took 28 seconds longer than LHarc to compress to virtually the same
- filesize. the file it was compressing was only 150k. Zip's Deflate
- mode was only 1-second quicker than LHarc, but it got almost 2% better
- compression! (No biggy, but it's an improvement!)
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