| ▲ | Show HN: WinZST > 7-Zip fork with first-class compressed tar support on Windows(github.com) | |
| 4 points by firebadnofire 2 days ago | 2 comments | ||
WinZST is a 7-Zip fork that extracts compressed tar archives directly to their final directory instead of materializing an intermediate `.tar`. In one 11.8 GiB `.tar.gz` test containing mostly video, WinZST took 51.87s from archive → `foo/`; 7-Zip took 103.53s across `.tar.gz` → `.tar` → `foo/`. | ||
| ▲ | paguasmar 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
It's great that you found a way to simplify the extraction algorithm. Can you share the PC specs you used to run the test for both the WinZST and 7-Zip experiment? | ||
| ▲ | michael_luog 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Besides speed, we should check the compression ratio also when comparing compression software. | ||