Greg,
TNX for the testing. Not necessary.
I still live in 32-bit-land (XP).
But, I get it! I will push forward.
Duncan
On 04/23/2010 18:06, Greg Sevart wrote:
It's been a while since I compared 7z, and I heard some good things about
the latest beta, so I decided to do a few tests:
Test file: 415MB uncompressed SQL Server 2005 backup file (a file that's
typical of one that is important to me)
7zip 9.13 beta x64
WinRAR 3.93 x64
WinZIP 12
7z Ultra LZMA 2 threads: 56.2MB in 2:25
7z Ultra LZMA2 4 threads: 56.6MB in 1:13
7z Maximum LZMA2 4 threads: 58.9MB in 1:28
7z Normal LZMA2 4 threads: 61MB in 0:59
7z Fast LZMA2 4 threads: 68.8MB in 0:11
WinRAR Best multi-thread: 68.2MB in 0:57
WinZIP ppmd: 79.6MB in 2:50
Really come a long way. I'm impressed.
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Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 4:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] 7-ZIP Question?
Well 7z& Zip have supplanted Rar as defacto standards for downloaded
content with Zip as usual the most common.
If it does Rar, Zip, adds better compressing 7z format, and incorporates
all
the positives / none of the negatives you mention then one would have to
question "why use use WinRAR at all?"
I can think of nothing I had to compromise switching from WinRar to 7Z.
On 4/23/2010 1:17 PM, Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Bryan Seitz wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, DSinc wrote:
TNX Bryan! I'll start to roll it out on the lan!
For me, 7zip is now a "must have."
Best,
Duncan
Have not used 7 zip much, but I really like winrar. www.rarsoft.com.
Handles just about anything I throw at it including jara jar files,
iso files, bz2, etc.
Try it you might switch. I too used WinZip and Winrar before
converting. Winrar is also not free.
I'm not sure how you can enhance an application used to decompress
files really. I want the window to show me the files, I want shell
integration to extract everything to current folder or to subfolder. I
do *NOT* want something running all the time like the winzip helper
thing that goes into the systray, I do not want a wizard that asked 20
questions when I try to extract a file.
I'll look at 7zip, but I'm going in very skeptical that it will meet
my needs any better than winrar does. It will have to do it better
BTW, I'm not someone to switch to something new unless there is value in
it.
Christopher Fisk
