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I believe it is what the poster you are replying to would call "a specific curated use case." (Semi-seriously, I don't know anyone who uses a Unix(-like) syste
by chipotle_coyote 6y ago
I believe it is what the poster you are replying to would call "a specific curated use case."
(Semi-seriously, I don't know anyone who uses a Unix(-like) system who uses 7zip, although I'm sure they're out there. For the record, I just unzipped a 120M archive on both my 2020 Core i7 MacBook Air and my 2018 (last-gen) iPad Pro and as near as I can tell the iPad was faster actually extracting the files, but had an extra second or so of overhead from the UI.)
- ac29 6y ago> I don't know anyone who uses a Unix(-like) system who uses 7zip 7zip is an implementation of LZMA, like xz. So, different names and file format details, but essentially the same algorithm.
- user5994461 6y agoCorrect. 7zip is a LZMA compressor. The common equivalent command line tool on Linux is xz. Linux distributions have been using xz compression for all packages (replacing gzip). So to the question of how relevant is xz/lzma/7zip performance to day to day task, is it's a lot relevant. The successor will probably be zstd in the coming years. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-31-Zstd-RPM-Change https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-3...
- rjsw 6y agoYou can find a 7zip for UNIX here [1]. [1] http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/