sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWinRAR releases new update and says it’s thanks to people finally payingwww.dexerto.comexternal-linkmessage-square141linkfedilinkarrow-up1583cross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.world
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minus-squarems.lane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·2 months agoI use it on occasion, since it will deflate 100+GB zip files much faster than 7zip will. (7z is single threaded for pkzips) It’s been more than a decade since I used it to compress anything though. LZMA2 rocks.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoHow does multithreading improve the performance of an unzip operation? I would think the opposite, given the context switching and (abstracted) low level drive writes.
I use it on occasion, since it will deflate 100+GB zip files much faster than 7zip will. (7z is single threaded for pkzips)
It’s been more than a decade since I used it to compress anything though. LZMA2 rocks.
How does multithreading improve the performance of an unzip operation? I would think the opposite, given the context switching and (abstracted) low level drive writes.