Having a large number of files in an archive is going to slow any
unzipper down, because there is a constant time overhead to creating a
file, regardless of size. As the file size gets smaller more and more
time is spent on file creation rather than file decompression.
Justin
On Wednesday, April 20, 2005, at 09:29 AM, Andrew Snell wrote:
Compressing files is OK -- it's extracting where I see the pain.
Perhaps I have a flakey XP install, but winzip/winrar are an order of
magnitude faster than built-in decompression for me. Having many files
(~100+) in the archive really seems to exacerbate this.
Steven H. Blackwell wrote:
In the FWIW department, XP's built-in zip handling is SLOW. I mean,
really, really slow.
Not for me. Routinely zip up multi megabyte files.
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