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lrzip is even better (Score:1)

by Ed Avis (3134) <ed@membled.com> on 2009.07.02 6:54 (#69221) Homepage

I like lrzip [kolivas.org] which does a sorting step before LZMA compression, usually giving even better space/speed tradeoff.
XZ [tukaani.org] is the other plain LZMA-based compressor; it's not clear why both it and lzip need to exist, but hopefully one of them will evolve to support both file formats and thus become the winner.

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