Thursday, January 20, 2005

WinRAR Vs WinAce

I always liked WinAce for its excellent compression compared to any others. Recently on steam forums some one talked about backing up steam files on to optical media using WinRAR. Though I have faith in WinAce but I have not used WinRAR for ages so I thought it might have improved, so I decided to test the two.
  • Task - Compressing Valve Steam Game files
  • Size - 6.03GB
  • Compression settings - Highest
    • Compression - Best
    • Solid Archive - Yes
    • Dictionary Size - 4096
    • Use Content specific compression - Yes
    • File split - CD-R 700MB
  • WinAce v2.5
  • Total Files generated - 5
  • Last File size - 4.87MB
  • Total compressed size - 2.74GB
  • WinRAR v3.42
  • Total Files generate - 5
  • Last File size - 88.6MB
  • Total compressed size - 2.82GB
WinAce - WinRAR = 83.73MB
Considering the amount of data being compressed WinRAR is quite close to WinAce and WinAce seems to pull out little more in my various other tests also.

posted by Subhash Chandra @ 1/20/2005 08:56:00 AM   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 1/25/2005 2:30 PM, Blogger Kousik said...

So more or less they are equivalent. Is any of them have its source open? Do they use any standard algorithm or their own? I generally think in terms of gzip or bzip2, so how do these compare with winrar/winace?

 

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