Alright, here's the results. I'll just post my notes since they are pretty self explanatory.
MDK
original Zip - 85.76 MB
max. Zip in 7zip - 78 MB (Maximum Zip compression using 7Zip.)
maximum with Uharc - 62.9 MB
maximum with 7Zip - 61 MB (29% improvement over original)
decompression time original - 5 sec
decompression time max Zip - 17 sec
decompression time Uharc - 7 min 46 sec (memory required to decom. 22.6 MB)
decompression time 7Zip - 14 sec (memory required to decom. 66 MB)
Basically, it is possible to get a little more compression with Zip format. But 7Zip is considerably better, and doesn't take much longer to decompress either.
So, how does having both Zip and 7Zip archives available for download sound? It wouldn't reduce bandwidth as much as dumping Zip completely. But, it would still help, and questions/problems would be kept to a minimum. A help page could be put up telling people where to get 7Zip, ect. It would probably best to limit 7Zip archives to, say, 10+ MB downloads. Does that sound like something worthwhile? :wondering:
Last edited by Adamg; 05-02-2008 at 01:02 PM.
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