So I recently tried to compress a archive of various different files in the 200 meg range. I set almost every setting in 7-zip to it's maximum:
I thought that this would take some time, but I guess my processor just laughed at the job. Not only that, but 7-zip only supports dual-processor compression when I have a 4-core so I switched over to LZMA2 (under "compression method") to utilize even more of the processor. It makes me wonder: is there anything out there that provides even better compression? I looked into RAR5 but so far it looks like 7-zip is better (here's a Tom's Hardware breakdown, but I found similar results elsewhere http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/win ... 36-13.html). Maybe a way to soup up the dictionary, word, or block size?
More compression?
Re: More compression?
The best comparison of compression algorithms I'm aware of is http://maximumcompression.com/.
Their probably most important comparison table is the efficiency table.
Their probably most important comparison table is the efficiency table.
There is also a raw compression ratio table. However, the most powerful algorithms trade way too much speed for compression ratio.The basic idea is a compressor X has the same efficiency as compressor Y if X can compress twice as fast as Y and resulting archive size of X is 10% larger than size of Y.
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Re: More compression?
Very interesting - thanks for the info.
Re: More compression?
Old thread update: some newer (possibly better) compression codecs that would answer the fundamental question in this thread were mentioned so I thought I'd note their existence.