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- Subject: Re: ZOO/ZIP/ARC/LZH - why not ARJ?
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- From: craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore)
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 16:41:36 +1200
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- In <8eck4=200awJAJJIFk@andrew.cmu.edu>, Stefan Monnier writes:
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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 !
- >
- >One thing is sure: ZIP is the best in this bechmark !
- >
- >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 !
- >
- >If I want to be fast, I just don't compress at all!
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- I just wish that there was an ARJ compressor for the ST, the UNARJ leaves
- the others for dead, it's compression is better than everything else,
- and it's speed it only very slightly slower than the fastest one!
- Any of you people in .tech reading this feel like writing one? :-)
-
- some results from a test I did a while ago....
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- The test was on : 34 files, 231065 bytes uncompressed
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- Method Size compressed Time to decompress
- ------ --------------- ------------------
- LZH 109900 bytes 38.5 sec
- LZH v5 88268 43.9
- ARC 129045 39.5
- ZIP 110628 25.2
- ZOO 89462 40.7
- ARJ 87812 26.4
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- Craig.
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