NanoZip .wcx plugin would be beneficial

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Post by *Horst.Epp »

deus-ex wrote:
MVV wrote:Isn't it reckless to pack files w/o checksums using beta archiver?
I don't use this compressor to archive any important data, it's just for testing purposes finding the best possible compression result. I was hoping for this archiver to evolve in time, but apparently the author of Nanozip has shifted his focus, probably due to real life constraints.
Are there any really reasonable pros that NanoZip offers in compare to more popular archivers? In my little tests it was significantly better than 7-Zip only with really time consuming mode. And unfortunately unpacking in such mode is also terribly slow, not only packing. Also, it is interesting how about memory consumption - is unpacking requires also 5 GB of RAM?
Indeed, in single-threaded mode Nanozip is quite time consuming. If you have a multi-core CPU try increasing the number of compressors used in parallel (-p#). E.g. for a quad-core CPU use -p4, for hexa-core use -p6. The speed-increase is quite incredible, depending on the data to compress it surpasses 7-Zip in terms of compression (better) and required time (less). But Nanozip's decompression speed is by far worse compared to 7-Zip's performance.
But decompression is the operation you are using most with archives.
So its just a useles new tool which also doesn't get any more updates since a long time.
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not sure if it's a good idea to use nanozip, honestly. it's dead.
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zpaq, freearc or whatever might be a better choice.
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Still got a good compression, though.

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