Adam Borowski [20/10/2018 22.54]: > Anything else has been obsoleted and should be deprecated: > * gzip is venerable and had seen so much use in the past that it won't ever > go away. But you shouldn't use it: it's speed is same as xz at level 2.5 > but compression ratio is drastically worse. > * bzip2 is drastically slower (esp. at decompression) than xz and zstd; it > needs to die. > * lzop had a good run but zstd is much stronger at same speed while lz4 is > much faster. > * lzip is a worse alternative to xz, peddled by a couple of trolls that send > untruthful propaganda to projects, hoping people won't do research between > accepting its use. Just say no and use xz. > * ncompress is completely dead by now. > * zip is used by Windows folks only, similar to gzip. > * rar is unfree. > * 7z is similar but incompatible to xz; also a container rather than a pure > compressor.
You forgot 'pack' :-) -- Hilsen Harald _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
