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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library (www.techspot.com)

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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know for a fact .tar.xz offers the best compression rate for my use case.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you aren't an average user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It also takes forever to pack.

I ran benchmarks for syslog compression/decompression, and ended up using plzip, which used lzma, just because it was the fastest decompression while still having only marginally worse ratio.

But it still takes forever to pack.