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7z is an archive format, it just uses LZMA2 compression I believe.
by mik1998 3y ago
7z is an archive format, it just uses LZMA2 compression I believe.
- arp242 3y agoWell it's also an LZMA implementation, and an implementation can be fast or slow, good or bad. From what I gather 7zip tends to be quite a bit faster than xz, since it's been worked on/optimized quite a bit more (I didn't test this myself to verify, but I've seen several people comment on that over the last few years).