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A few things. People care because RAR is ancient, and there are a lot of RAR-archives in the wild. And also WinRAR has resisted enshittification - it's a very w
by encom 1y ago
A few things. People care because RAR is ancient, and there are a lot of RAR-archives in the wild. And also WinRAR has resisted enshittification - it's a very well made piece of software that has had a mostly stable UI. It works, and works well, so why change?
About lzma, I believe zst beats it on every metric. I resisted it for a while, because it's tainted by Facebook, but I can't argue with the results.
- LeoPanthera 1y ago> About lzma, I believe zst beats it on every metric Performance, yes. But not compression. lzma compresses much smaller than zstd.
- zamadatix 1y agoIn default settings ZSTD favors speed. In max settings they are often about the same in both compression and speed e.g. https://dwaves.de/2023/10/16/gnu-linux-bash-maximum-best-compression-for-binary-data-xz-lzma-vs-zstd-vs-7zip-7z-vs-parallel-multi-threaded-multi-core-bzip2-why-it-is-better-to-have-a-lot-of-swap-space-ram-3x-or-4x/ https://dwaves.de/2023/10/16/gnu-linux-bash-maximum-best-com... There was a particularly good benchmark comparison of the two which put them on a Pareto front of speed vs size from different levels over each on some different sources but I can't find that. ZSTD was ahead most of the time.