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Would it really take 5 years to develop rare compress and decompression that seems an extreme overestimate in time. I don't know of the compressor decompression
by xphos 5mo ago
Would it really take 5 years to develop rare compress and decompression that seems an extreme overestimate in time. I don't know of the compressor decompression but that seems really high
- q3k 5mo agoYeah, sounds closer to a 5 week thing, if you know what you're doing.
- self_awareness 5mo ago5 week is a decompressor for 1 version. If this supports multiple versions of RAR, then writing decompressors alone for all of them is probably a year effort of work.
- davidsong 5mo agoWell, it is every version of RAR. Documenting the quirks of rar 1.4, 1.5, 2.0, 2.9, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 7.0, multiple compression strategies, PPMd, RARVM, compression levels, encryption, multi volume support, a huge test corpus, round trips for compatibility... The spec docs are linked.
- xphos 5mo agoYour probably right I should read the spec but I've worked with so many brillant engineers and I am still pretty young so their must be even more. I just think the overselling of complexity is usually what makes things enterprise grade :) (if you know you know)