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

[Nate DeSimone]

I don't think it should be used for internet downloads, but prehaps we 
should use thier compression algorithm in the ReactOS installer?  That 
would decrease file size by quite a bit and not require some wierd 
software on the user's machine.


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.
>
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