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Συντάκτης: Arnt Karlsen
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Προς: dng
Αντικείμενο: Re: [DNG] How to unarchive an .xz
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:24:46 +0200, arne wrote in message
<20181020232446.231bf6f5@ryzen>:

> On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:08:23 +0200
> Harald Arnesen <skogtun@???> wrote:
>
> > Adam Borowski [20/10/2018 22.54]:
> >
> > > Anything else has been obsoleted and should be deprecated:
> > > * gzip is venerable and had seen so much use in the past that it
> > > won't ever go away.  But you shouldn't use it: it's speed is same
> > > as xz at level 2.5 but compression ratio is drastically worse.
> > > * bzip2 is drastically slower (esp. at decompression) than xz and
> > > zstd; it needs to die.
> > > * lzop had a good run but zstd is much stronger at same speed
> > > while lz4 is much faster.
> > > * lzip is a worse alternative to xz, peddled by a couple of trolls
> > > that send untruthful propaganda to projects, hoping people won't
> > > do research between accepting its use.  Just say no and use xz.
> > > * ncompress is completely dead by now.
> > > * zip is used by Windows folks only, similar to gzip.
> > > * rar is unfree.
> > > * 7z is similar but incompatible to xz; also a container rather
> > > than a pure compressor.    

> >
> > You forgot 'pack' :-)
>
> You forgot pigz lbzip2 pixz pxz, those are multicore, multithtread
> programs.


...and rzip and lrzip... ;oD

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