mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
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7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
13 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 0 stories, 13 comments · first 2017-03-08 · latest 2026-09-23
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I'm not that fussed about CPU use. https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd By these charts, if I only need 5-10 megabytes per second of compression on a single core, LZMA2 wins significantly on ratio, and still decompresses at well over 100.…
comment by Dylan16807 · 2026-09-23 · in Can gzip be a language model? -
You are looking for 7-Zip Zstd: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-Zstd I don't know what your use case is, but it seems to be quite a niche.
comment by Beretta_Vexee · 2025-07-09 · in 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression -
https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
comment by sammy2255 · 2025-07-09 · in 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression -
…codecs like Zstandard. Many folks (such as myself) opt to install their releases instead. [1]: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
comment by ofek · 2025-07-06 · in 7-Zip 25.00 -
…[3]. --- 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip#Security 1: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip 2: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd 3: https://github.com/myfreeer/7z-build-nsis
comment by tecleandor · 2025-04-07 · in Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia -
tar.zst vs pack is looking great, thanks! Also there is https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd .pack vs zst-7z with the same compression settings would b interesting. That will be pure container overhead
comment by out_of_protocol · 2024-03-23 · in Pack: A new container format for compressed files -
…a 7zip fork that offers zstd [1]. The command line experience for 7zip isn't very good however. 1: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
comment by wongarsu · 2023-10-16 · in Zip – How not to design a file format (2021) -
…of modifications of 7zip to allow using that method in ZIP files, but I don't know more than that: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/issues/132 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1403 If…
comment by acqq · 2023-09-26 · in Show HN: pzip- blazing fast concurrent zip archiver and extractor -
https://mcmilk.de/projects/7-Zip-zstd/ https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/releases
comment by LargoLasskhyfv · 2021-03-13 · in 7-Zip for Linux -
…support baked in along with some other useful algorithms – the repo has a good comparison of them: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/ (Linking to this more for the overview than the Windows tool in itself.)
comment by AnthonBerg · 2021-01-27 · in LZ4 – Extremely fast compression -
I’ve been using 7z for many years and https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/ which is just a patched 7z for a while. And p7zip on unix platforms. I know PeaZip is based on that, so I wonder what made you choose this over 7z?
comment by chronogram · 2019-05-02 · in PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility -
GP mentioned this fork of 7-Zip with zstd support: - https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd The changes to the 7-Zip file format were discussed upstream, and upstream agreed to not tread on the magic values: -…
comment by mappu · 2019-04-17 · in Zstandard v1.4.0 -
Do you mean this ? https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
comment by stardomSerf · 2017-03-08 · in Better Compression with Zstandard