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# time pbzip2 -c wordlist.txt > wordlist.txt.bz2 real 41m53.295s user 67m17.972s sys 5m38.981s # time 7z a -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on wordlist.txt.7z wordlist.txt real 525m35.861s user 446m31.866s sys 32m20.861s # ls -lhgo total 31G -rw------- 1 25G 2008-12-16 00:55 wordlist.txt -rw------- 1 776M 2008-12-17 01:09 wordlist.txt.7z -rw------- 1 5.0G 2008-12-16 08:46 wordlist.txt.bz2....'nuff said.
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s9y testdrive on : Compression benchmarks
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Some time has passed since the last compression benchmarks and new contenders entered the race, so let's do another round of benchmarks, shall we? MacBook Pro 2013 $ tar -cf test.tar /usr/share/ $ ls -goh test.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 384M Oct 6 0
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