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lzbench
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Chrome Feature: ZSTD Content-Encoding
For a benchmark on a standard set: https://github.com/inikep/lzbench/blob/master/lzbench18_sort...
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Rsyncing 20TB locally
You can crunch the numbers yourself with this: https://github.com/inikep/lzbench
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Lizard – efficient compression with fast decompression
Note that a benchmark in the README refers to zstd 1.1.1 and brotli 0.5.2, which are very old (the current versions are zstd 1.5.2 and brotli 1.0.9). The same author maintains lzbench [1], which is more or less up-to-date.
- What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code
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Zip-Ada development on LZMA compression
u/zertillon, maybe you could use lzbench, so you could compare it with a lot of other compression libraries. The problem is that it requires including the library in a single executable, so it might be more difficult to integrate than a C library (the benchmark is in C++).
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Save disk space for your games: BTRFS filesystem compression as alternative to CompactGUI on Linux
Are you sure about that? That's not what I see on https://github.com/inikep/lzbench and I tried to run that myself, although I have no idea which lzo to try so I went with what seemed the fastest...
p7zip
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Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
nearly every main distro I am aware of has both available. The reason you still see p7zip is because the CLI incompatibilities vs the newer 7z/7zip executables and the general licensing issues. Most users of "old p7zip" are actually using the actively maintained https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip which is updated, supporting unix permissions and zstd and so on.
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7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps
Thank you for pointing this out! This is the source of much confusion. Although Arch for example uses https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip which seems to be reasonably maintained?
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Replace p7zip with upstream 7-Zip
Then you can compile p7zip from source: $ mkdir p7zip-git $ cd p7zip-git $ git clone https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip .
There is a newer fork of p7zip https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip It's last release was (Apr 04, 2021) and was v17.04
- Don't Use RAR
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TIL there's a fork of the unmaintained p7zip port of 7-Zip
The p7zip port of 7-Zip is several releases behind and the project seems to be abandoned. I discovered this when a large archive failed to extract with Engrampa which uses it. It reported a "Headers Error" which is due to a compatibility problem between zip format implementations. 7-Zip has a fix but the port doesn't. But there's a fork on GitHub which is being actively maintained. Check it out.
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7-Zip 21.0 alpha introduces native Linux support
this comment might clarify that.
What are some alternatives?
7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
NanaZip - The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience
7z - Because 7-zip source code was in a 7z archive [mirror]
libarchive - Multi-format archive and compression library
CompactGUI - Transparently compress active games and programs using Windows 10/11 APIs [Moved to: https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI]
engrampa - A file archiver for MATE
fast-lzma2 - Fast LZMA2 Library
precomp-cpp - Precomp, C++ version - further compress already compressed files
pixz - Parallel, indexed xz compressor
CompactGUI - Transparently compress active games and programs using Windows 10/11 APIs
reedsolomon - Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding in Go