On Friday, 23 December 2011 at 17:24:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 23 December 2011 at 17:13:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
Interestingly, in my experience, 7z seems to even beat
.tar.bz2 by a non-trivial amount.
Slackware Linux recently changed from the old .tar.gz for it's
distribution to .tar.xz - .xz uses the same algorithm as 7zip.
I never cared much for bz2 myself. It's slightly better than
gzip,
but it comes at the cost of being slow as crap.
The great thing about bzip2 is that it parallelizes much better
than LZMA.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/file-compression-in-the-multi-core-era.html
LZMA2 (available starting with 7-Zip 9.20) was created with
parallelization in mind.
