• menas
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    4 days ago

    haha. I spent so much time looking for an efficient compression algorithm for audio and movies … until I finally understood there are already compressed X) However it allow me to discover zst, wich is uncredible with text :

     35M test.log
    801K test.7z
      32 test.log.7z
      46 test.log.tar.bz2
      45 test.log.tar.gz
     108 test.log.tar.xz
      22 test.log.tar.zst
    2,1M test.tar.bz2
    8,1M test.tar.gz
    724K test.tar.xz
    1,1M test.tar.zst
    8,1M test.zip
    
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, I found zst recently as well. Quite a bit faster than xz/7z which is what I previously used (or gz when I just needed something fast).

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        3 days ago

        And .tar.zst into 22!?

        What was that log file? Millions of identical characters?

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        3 days ago

        I shall have check. No for some reason some archives failed. Not 7z, but it size is 800kB :

        35M test.log
        804K test.7z    
        8,1M test.tar.gz
        8,1M test.zip
        724K test.tar.xz
        2,1M test.tar.bz2
        1,1M test.tar.zst