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ykuksenko:
I would like to suggest to those that host the download files, please try the 7-zip format to compress those downloads they will compress much better!!!

rickg22:
Thanks for the suggestion, but there's a problem... CodeBlocks is intended for a broad audience. They usually have winzip in their machines, and making them install 7zip would be an unnecessary annoyance. We may lose quite a few users if we do that.

kagerato:

--- Quote from: ykuksenko ---I would like to suggest to those that host the download files, please try the 7-zip format to compress those downloads they will compress much better!!!
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I suggest quantifying your claim with some actual data.  Otherwise, it is difficult to determine whether "much better" is a significant difference.

darklordsatan:

--- Quote from: kagerato ---
I suggest quantifying your claim with some actual data. Otherwise, it is difficult to determine whether "much better" is a significant difference.

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I think is not a big secret 7-zip format is the big daddy of compression formats right now...


--- Quote from: http://www.7-zip.org ---
Compression ratio

Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. We compared 7-Zip with some of the leading archivers: WinRAR 3.10, WinAce 2.3, CABARC 1.0, PKZIP 2.50.

FILE SET: The GIMP 1.2.4 for Windows after full installation (127 subfolders, 1304 files totaling 27,128,826 bytes). The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It can be downloaded from www.gimp.org.

--- Code: ---
Archiver     Compressed size Ratio
7-Zip (7z format)    5445402           100%
WinRAR 3.10           6004155          110%
WinAce 2.3             6242424           115%
CABARC 1.0           6455327           119%
7-Zip (zip format)    9461621          174%
PKZIP 2.50             9842800           181%

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Usually 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than other zip compatible programs.

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rickg22:
Did you include BZIP2 in comparison? (slightly offtopic, bzip2 would have rocked except for its ridiculous one-file-only approach. Why didn't they just use the infozip format for storing the headers?)

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