Thibouille wrote:
I wanted to know how a raw file would compress, specially since D
files are quite big (bigger than DS as you probably know). I tried a
couple formats. My point was to know how it would compress the best,
not taking speed into account !!
Of course size will vary with the software you use and with options chosen.
Original PEF filesize: 14.222 KB
Zipped (maximum): 8.686 KB
RAR v2.5 (maximum): 8034 KB
ACE v2.6 (maximum): 8630 KB
7-zip (LZMA algorithm, 32MB dictionary size, 128bytes word size): 7308KB
I'm definitely impressed by 7-zip format. Although it is quite slow
(with the mehtod and options I chose since speed was not important) it
is way beter than others.
RAR is a bit beter than Zip but I thought it'd do beter. ACE is both
less effective than RAR (which took me as a surprise) and about as
effective as ZIP which is definitely a huge surprise for me, I thought
it'd be between RAR and 7-zip.
Have you ever tried bzip2? See http://www.bzip.org/...
