[ros-dev] 7-zip - holy smokes!

[James Tabor]

Phillip Susi wrote:
> With the recent discussion about 7-zip I decided to check it out.  I 
> took my project's working directory at work, which is 8.3 megs of source 
> and object code, and compressed it.  Winzip on max compression got it 
> down to 2.5 megs.  WinRar on max compression got it down to 2.1 megs. 
> 7-zip got it down to 517k!
> 
> I nearly shat myself.
> 
> 
> I don't know how it does it, but this thing is incredible.  I think it 
> definitely needs further investigation and possible use.
> 
Cool, hough?

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Very nice,
James