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| ▲ | shezi 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | They are a German GmbH and must publicly state their financials: https://www.northdata.de/win%C2%B7rar%20GmbH,%20Berlin/Amtsg... Looks pretty profitable to me. | | |
| ▲ | amiga386 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They're one of the few companies that actually manage to sell "boxed software" (i.e. has not changed much in years but new customers keep buying it) That said, Windows users should use 7-Zip. Better compression format, unpacks more kinds of archives | | |
| ▲ | xxs 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Windows users should use 7-Zip Please no - no native zstd support. NanaZip is the better option (it's a different build of 7-zip) and it's available at windows store. > Better compression format, unpacks more kinds of archives winrar has supported zstd for 5 years[0] In short - Everyone should be using zstd, and 7-zip does not support it. [0]: https://www.win-rar.com/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5... | | |
| ▲ | tnelsond4 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, zstd is awesome. I built a webapp that uses it via wasm and the decompression speed is incredible, so much so that I store everything in zstd and decompress it on the app load. My wasm binary also does advanced search and tag insertion and stuff in addition to zstd but it's only 38kb. I wish zstd was supported natively by web browsers. The 8kb implementation of zstd is only half as slow as wasm, so even that is still viable. | | |
| ▲ | cgio 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Lzma. I did a simple test, same payload repeated with a gap. Lzma ruled it. |gap |gzip |bz2 |lzma |
|---------|----------|-----|--------|
|0 |2.7% |18.9%|*0.9%*|
|8 KB |2.4% |17.8%|0.9% |
|*40 KB*|*94.4%* |17.7%|0.4% |
|1 MB |*104.3%*|19.7%|*0.9%*| | | |
| ▲ | notpushkin 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | HN doesn’t support Markdown tables. You can prepend two spaces to show it in monospace though. I don’t see zstd in your comparison? |
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| ▲ | aleph_minus_one 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Everyone should be using zstd Why? | | |
| ▲ | shawabawa3 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's just the best general purpose compression algorithm, in terms of compression ratio to CPU used, for the vast majority of use cases | | | |
| ▲ | xxs 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's just this good. On a more realistic note: few years back, I've added zstd compression to our log subsystem (hand written direct buffers, native code, in-process, java). For the same CPU utilization if provides twice dense compression compared to regular [-6] gzip (the topic in the title). Zstd is =much= faster on decompression as well, and it this case - unparalleledly better as it uses twice less disk. zstd is 'silicon valley' (the tv show) - life imitates fiction, except entirely open source |
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| ▲ | dd8601fn 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Huh. I guess the warez kids grew up and have money, now? | |
| ▲ | jurgenburgen 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That’s surprising. Seems there is a niche for everything. | | | |
| ▲ | firtoz 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | TIL they're Turkish | | |
| ▲ | tecleandor 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The original author and also creator of the RAR format, Eugene Roshal, is Russian. I think he moved to the US way back in the day, but not sure about that. He has been very private with his life. The company doing the software distribution, is located in Berlin. The Managing Directors for that company seem to have Turkish names, but I don't know if they're Turkish. BTW, Looking for some info I just found a website [0], clearly AI generated (but not necessarily meaning the content is false) claiming Eugene Roshal had severe kidney failure this past month, and he's waiting for surgery. They're asking for donations. There are some names on who's theoretically behind it [1] but they don't link to any LinkedIn profile or personal site. I can't find any other references. The BTC wallet they're using for donations hasn't seen any traffic ever. BE WARY, SMELLS FISHY. -- 0: https://eugeneroshal.org/
1: https://eugeneroshal.org/about/
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