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Long Range Zip

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-10-23 · latest 2024-05-21

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  1. …xz in macOS but I’m switching to lrzip [1] for better compression size and especially speed [1] https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip
    comment by alin23 · 2024-05-21 · in Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder
  2. lrzip Long Range ZIP or LZMA RZIP https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip "A compression utility that excels at compressing large files (usually > 10-50 MB). Larger files and/or more free RAM means that the utility will be able to more…
    comment by trillic · 2022-11-18 · in How to get your backup to half of its size – ZSTD support
  3. …I could just do that the traditional way if I so wished. [1]: https://github.com/Phantop/srep [2]: https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip [3]: https://github.com/conor42/fast-lzma2 [4]: https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip [5]:…
    comment by phantop · 2022-02-25 · in Don't Use RAR
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    Lrzip – Long Range Zip or LZMA RZIP
    story by pabs3 · 2021-05-24 · 3 comments
  5. …I know of for that is something like lrzip still, but even then it's probably not state of the art. https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip It'll also take a hell of a long time to do the compression and decompression. It'd probably be better to…
    comment by simcop2387 · 2021-04-25 · in Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
  6. There's also lrzip for large files: https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip
    comment by rzzzt · 2021-01-03 · in Encrypted Backup Shootout
  7. I always find [lrzip]( https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip ) is under appreciated when it comes to compression discussions; it doesn't suit all circumstances, but it works really well in the ones it does (we're using it with the nocompress…
    comment by bruce_one · 2018-11-26 · in Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm
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    Lrzip compression benchmarks (2012)
    story by kmfrk · 2018-02-14 · 0 comments
  9. …in the wild so far but for certain files it can increase the compression ratio quite a bit. [1] https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip # 151M linux-4.14-rc6.tar.gz # GZIP decompression ~$ time gzip -dk linux-4.14-rc6.tar.gz real 0m4.518s user…
    comment by vmp · 2017-10-23 · in An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor