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"7-Zip - You'll typically get between 2% and 10% better compression than ZIP." Does anyone really care about compression rates? And what about the fact that no

• smiler 17y ago
  All depends on what you're using it for. We use 7zip all the time at work and it is invaluable and I often see better compression rates depending on the data involved. I just zipped up an Eclipse workspace .zip using 7zip = 27mb .7zip using 7zip = 6.5mb We have a VPN to a customer over a dedicated ADSL link (max 300k upload) and daily we are transferring new builds / files. Which would you prefer? Edit: you can also create a self-extracting 7zip as an executable as well with a very minimal payload (couple of 100k)
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• ciupicri 17y ago
  7zip is the new zip
• blasdel 17y ago
  The real annoyance for me is that the 7zip program's extraction mechanism (for all the formats it supports) writes the uncompressed data twice, and in the penultimate step is using 2x the space. It's just like a naive compressed tar extractor.