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  sryo said:
Archiver Compressed size Ratio

7-Zip (7z format) 5445402 100%

WinRAR 3.10 6004155 110%

WinAce 2.3 6242424 115%

CABARC 1.0 6455327 119%

7-Zip (zip format) 9461621 174%

PKZIP 2.50 9842800 181%

FILE SET: The GIMP 1.2.4 for Windows after full installation (127 subfolders, 1304 files totaling 27,128,826 bytes). The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It can be downloaded from www.gimp.org.

Thank you for actually posting some data to back up your reply and not some scab's opinion.

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  linsook said:
but if u looking for best compression algorithm UHARC hands down.

no it doesn't.

myth and other warez groups use it to pack textures becuase that's the only thing it's good at. at everything else it's INSANELY slow and doesn't compress that good. even uharc v0.5

edgrale, yup, and for backup i use my tape array at /dev/null

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  MxxCon said:
no it doesn't.

myth and other warez groups use it to pack textures becuase that's the only thing it's good at. at everything else it's INSANELY slow and doesn't compress that good. even uharc v0.5

edgrale, yup, and for backup i use my tape array at /dev/null

i am still going to stand by what i said. it has the best compression. it is insanely slow, and taking that into consideration the difference in compression that it gives compared to rar is so minimal its not even worth using... but never the less it makes the file size smaller without a doubt, no matter how minimal the difference is.

for practicallity its gets a zero... but it answers his question.

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yeah, I think I'll stick with 7zip since it supports a variety of formats, is convenient and free. Although WinRAR seems tempting, it's not free :(

BTW does anyone here use TAR compression? For me it's the most useless compression ever. Is it particularly effective for any type of media or file?

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  linsook said:
if ur looking for best compressing program.... winrar

but if u looking for best compression algorithm UHARC hands down.

UHarc rules... i've been using it to compress big files over 1gb ... and it can compress it down to 500mb or even lesser :) :yes:

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  linsook said:
i am still going to stand by what i said. it has the best compression. it is insanely slow, and taking that into consideration the difference in compression that it gives compared to rar is so minimal its not even worth using... but never the less it makes the file size smaller without a doubt, no matter how minimal the difference is.

for practicallity its gets a zero... but it answers his question.

i know UHARC is slow but on compressing big files to upload on a slow connection, it's worth it :)

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  futb0l said:
i've been using it to compress big files over 1gb ... and it can compress it down to 500mb or even lesser :) :yes:

totally and absolutly irrelevant.

like i posted before, 14k rar file has 4terabytes of content in it.

saying this archiver compressed so much data to this size is irrelevant w/o objective comparison with another archiver. and YOU are not objective so don't bother replaying saying rar packed it to 700megs

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7-Zip has the best compression ratio, no contest. But RAR is not far behind, so since it's faster and more popular you should probably go with that one.

Third, I believe, is LZX, which is now a subformat of CAB (which is only a container just like AVI, and can use several compression formats).

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