lzbench
lzbench is an in-memory benchmark of open-source LZ77/LZSS/LZMA compressors (by inikep)
p7zip
A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/). (by p7zip-project)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
lzbench
Posts with mentions or reviews of lzbench.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-01.
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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
Posts with mentions or reviews of p7zip.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-20.
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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?
When comparing lzbench and p7zip you can also consider the following projects:
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