- I worry that 7-Zip is going to lose relevance because lack of zstd support. zlib's performance is intolerable for large files and zlib-ng's SIMD implementation only helps here a bit. Which is a shame, because 7-Zip is a pretty amazing container format, especially with its encryption and file splitting capabilities.
- Why was there a limitation on Windows? I can't find any such limit for Linux.
by lihaciudaniel
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- 7zip has been the greatest usage for limbo x86 on mobile.
You just termux qemu-utils convert your qcow2 partitions to IMG and 7zip can read IMG file
Try yourself to see you can extract from your emulated windows
- 7-zip is one of the software that I miss since I’ve moved to macOS
by fabiensanglard
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- How does that work? You cannot write to disk before you know the compressed size. Or if you do you can use a data descriptor but you cannot write concurrently.
I guess they buffer the compressed stream to RAM before writing to zip. If they want to keep their zip stable (always the same output given the same input), they also need to keep it a bit longer than necessary in RAM.
by leecarraher
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- I've used pbzip2 which takes the same parallel blocked compression approach 7zip seems to be taking (using AI's analysis of the changes). Theoretically the compression is less efficient, but i haven't noticed a difference in practice.
by marcodiego
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- https://xkcd.com/619/
- I had initially migrated to NanaZip, but with Windows natively supporting the 7z format now, I'm not sure it's needing anymore.
- This may or may not be a relevant question, but does the terminology of "zip" have the same origin as the zip disk drive?
by ltbarcly3
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- Wow, a program that doesn't matter anymore has been very very minimally enhanced on a platform that doesn't matter anymore, benefitting the 7 users that have more than 64 real cores with Windoes and are regularly compressing archives so large that it doesn't drastically reduce the compression ratio to split it into more thsn 64 sections.
Posting this link to hn has consumed more human potential than the thing it is describing will save up to the end of time.
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