Canardia Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Currently only zip and rar are allowed, but they have a problem: 1) zip compression is horrible 2) rar is commercial 7-zip is free and has the best compression, so it would be good to allow 7z files for uploads, to promote legal programs too. Quote ■ Ryzen 9 ■ RX 6800M ■ 16GB ■ XF8 ■ Windows 11 ■ ■ Ultra ■ LE 2.5 ■ 3DWS 5.6 ■ Reaper ■ C/C++ ■ C# ■ Fortran 2008 ■ Story ■ ■ Homepage: https://canardia.com ■ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mumbles Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 I've found paq9a to give better compression than 7zip but it's also incredibly slow. Quote LE Version: 2.50 (Eventually) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canardia Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 Yeah quantum and paq8l have the best compression, but they are way too slow for any practical use. 7-zip and freearc have the highest compression rates, and freearc is actually faster than zip or any other packer too. 7-zip has a slightly better compression rate than freearc though, but of course not always, and sometimes freearc packs better. Actually then arc should be added to the allowed upload formats too. Restricting the upload format is a bit silly, since exe is allowed, which is kinda like the worst disaster which can happen Quote ■ Ryzen 9 ■ RX 6800M ■ 16GB ■ XF8 ■ Windows 11 ■ ■ Ultra ■ LE 2.5 ■ 3DWS 5.6 ■ Reaper ■ C/C++ ■ C# ■ Fortran 2008 ■ Story ■ ■ Homepage: https://canardia.com ■ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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