Hi Bart Well, 40% is impressive. I guess I should get 7zip.
-- Tom On Sep 11, 7:12 am, "Bart.van.Andel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tom > > Well, the example I gave shows it's about twice as small, I'm talking > about the same files (though a different SVN version, but this > shouldn't make a huge difference). The 7Z also creates self-extracting > archives. > For fair comparison, I tried it on your last file, which is 20.621.719 > bytes in size. After decompressing and recompressing again (settings: > 7Z format, Ultra compression, LZMA, 64MB dictionary, 64 word size, 4GB > solid block size, Create SFX enabled, Compress shared files enabled), > the file is just 8.274.702 bytes. That's about 40 percent of your RAR > SFX file, or about 2.5 times smaller. Quite impressive, I'd say. > > But anyway, thanks for providing the RC5 of course :) > > Best, > Bart > > On Sep 11, 5:05 am, Tom Sharpless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Bart > > > Yes, 7zip archives are smaller (though not 2x smaller -- try archiving > > the installed directory with 7zip), but who cares? I don't have > > 7zip, I do have WinRAR, and WinRAR makes nice self-installing > > archives. So I use it. > > > Regards, Tom > > > . > > > On Sep 10, 7:08 am, "Bart.van.Andel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for posting! > > > > Just a tip: to save yourself some bandwidth, you could compress the > > > archive using 7-Zip (7zip.org), which compresses Hugin twice as much > > > as WinRAR does, apparently. For instance, your rc5 file is 19.6 MiB, > > > while the SVN3407 build takes up only 9.26 MiB of disk space. The > > > actual content of the SVN build is actually even a little bigger than > > > the rc5 content, in bytes. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
