• ms.lane@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      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.