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THAN
ZIP
COMPRESSION BENCHMARK
SETTINGS</a></p>
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DECOMPRESSION COMPARISON WITH FASTEST ZIP<br>
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FASTER THAN DEFLATE<br>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><big><big><big><a
name="fastest_compression_format"></a><a
href="fastest-compression-zip-deflate-benchmark.html#compressor_faster_than_winrar">Faster
than ZIP
compression benchmark
settings</a></big></big></big></h2>
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<p><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Goals</span></big></p>
<p><a name="what_is_the_fastest_file_compressor"></a>Analyze
modern compression algorithms capable to provide performances equal or
better than fastest commonly available implementation of classic
Deflate algorithms, employed in obiquitous ZIP format.<br>
Comparison is conducted, in terms of compression / extraction speed and
compression ratio, against performances of Deflate ZIP in the range
from default to fastest compression settings.<br>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><big>Software
settings</big><br>
</span></p>
<a
name="faster_than_deflate_compression_benchmark"></a>Benchmarks
are conducted
on Windows 10 2009 64 bit using 64 bit versions of:<br>
<ul>
<li>PeaZip 7.4.1<br>
</li>
<li>WinRar 5.8</li>
</ul>
All applications are tested using default,
out-of-the-box compression settings for the selected archive format.<br>
No cryptography option is set, since encryption impact on performances
is out of the scope of
this benchmark.<br>
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style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 100%; text-align: left;"
border="0" cellpadding="24" cellspacing="1">
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">
<p><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hardware
settings</span></big></p>
Notebook with Intel Core i7-8565U CPU, 4
physical cores with hyper-threading (8 logical cores), 8 GB RAM<br>
System disk 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD, NTFS filesystem<br>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><big><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Compression
formats compared in this benchmark</span></big><br>
</h3>
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<div style="text-align: left;"> </div>
<ul>
<li><a href="7z-file-format.html"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">7Z file
format</span></a>
Open Source archive format
by 7-Zip, providing strong and efficient compression and good
performances on multicore machines, tested with:<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">LZMA2 </span>algorithm
(strong compressor), set at fastest compression level</li>
<li><a
href="brotli-compressed-file-format.html"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Brotli</span></a> algorithm (fast
compressor), set at default compression
level</li>
<li><a
href="zst-compressed-file-format.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Zstandard</span></a><span
style="font-weight: bold;"></span> algorithm<span
style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(fast compressor), set at default
compression
level</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="what-is-rar-file.html"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">RAR file
format</span></a>
(RarLabs RAR5 revision) proprietary archive format providing
better
compression that ZIP using PPMd algorithm, tested
at fastest compression level<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="zip-file-format.html"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">ZIP file
format</span></a>
widely used archive format, tested at default and fastest compression
levels (with
Deflate algorithm) from
WinRar, which qualified as the fastest zip compressor in previous batch
of PeaZip's <a href="peazip-compression-benchmark.html">compression
benchmarks</a> </li>
</ul>
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style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 100%; text-align: left;"
border="0" cellpadding="24" cellspacing="1">
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<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> <big><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Input data</span></big><br>
<br>
Same set of data of previous "Brotli vs Zstandard" benchmark is used:
input contains 43 files in 4 directories for total 1.22 GB
(1,318,000,857 bytes), composed by well known reference files
representative of different data structures, widely used for
compression
benchmarks:<br>
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank"
href="http://corpus.canterbury.ac.nz/descriptions/">Calgary
and
Canterbury compression corpora<img
alt="Calgary Corpus, Canterbury corpus for standard compression tests"
title="Standard compression corpus files" src="free-rar/extractor.png"
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 12px; height: 10px;"></a></li>
<li><a target="_blank"
href="http://cs.fit.edu/%7Emmahoney/compression/enwik8.zip">enwik8<img
alt="english wikipedia dump for data compression benchmark"
title="Enwik8 compression test file" src="free-rar/extractor.png"
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 12px; height: 10px;"></a> and <a
target="_blank"
href="http://cs.fit.edu/%7Emmahoney/compression/enwik9.zip">enwik9<img
alt="english wikipedia 1GB dump for compression benchmark"
title="Enwik9 compression test file" src="free-rar/extractor.png"
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 12px; height: 10px;"></a></li>
<li><a target="_blank"
href="http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/%7Esdeor/index.php?page=silesia">Silesia
compression corpus<img
alt="Silesia corpus for standard file compression benchmarks"
title="Silesia corpus" src="free-rar/extractor.png"
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 12px; height: 10px;"></a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table
style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 960px; text-align: left;"
border="0" cellpadding="48" cellspacing="0">
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<tr align="left">
<td
style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: top;">
<h3><big><big><big><a name="faster_than_zip_compression"></a><a
href="fastest-compression-zip-deflate-benchmark.html#compressor_faster_than_winrar"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Compression
/ decompression comparison with fastest ZIP</span><br>
</a></big></big></big></h3>
<br>
<br>
<big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Faster than zip
compression
benchmark methods</span></big><br>
<br>
<a name="peazip_vs_winrar_compression_benchmark"></a>Benchmark
input data is saved to system disk (PCIe <span
style="font-weight: bold;">SSD</span>) and compressed to system
disk, same partition, separate directory; the resulting archives are
then extracted to
separate directory on same (system) disk/partition.<br>
<br>
Each compression and extraction test is repeated 10 times to get an
average value; size is expressed in MB, time in seconds.<br>
For each tested format, alhgorithm, and compression level, are used
default compression settings as
pre-set out of the box by the file archiver applications being tested
(PeaZip, and
WinRar).<br>
<br>
WinRar is chosen as reference for the fastest commonly available ZIP
Deflate implementation, due results of previous benchark tests.<br>
Performance of ZIP Deflate is analized at normal and fastest
compression levels, and compared with non-Deflate algorithms at
compression levels which provides comparable compression ratio and
speed results.<br>
<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><big>Faster than zip
compression
benchmark results
table, the lower the better for all columns</big><br>
<br>
</span>
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border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<col span="5" style="width: 68pt;" width="90"> <tbody>
<tr style="height: 33.75pt;" height="45">
<td
style="height: 32px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 250px;"
class="xl22">Utility, format, algorithm, level<br>
</td>
<td class="xl23"
style="border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Compression
(sec)<br>
</td>
<td class="xl23"
style="border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Archive
size <br>
(MB)</td>
<td class="xl23"
style="border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Compression
ratio<br>
</td>
<td class="xl23"
style="border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Extraction
<br>
(sec) </td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 24pt;" height="32">
<td class="xl24"
style="border-top: medium none; height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 250px;">WinRar,
ZIP normal<br>
</td>
<td class="xl25"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="12.1">21.4<br>
</td>
<td class="xl26"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="97.7">407<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">32.58%<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">8.0<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 24pt;" height="32">
<td class="xl24"
style="border-top: medium none; height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 250px;">WinRar,
ZIP fastest</td>
<td class="xl25"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="12.1">15.8<br>
</td>
<td class="xl26"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="97.7">429<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">34.34%<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">7.2<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 24pt;" height="32">
<td class="xl24"
style="border-top: medium none; height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 250px;">WinRar,
RAR PPMd fastest </td>
<td class="xl25"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="12.1">12.1<br>
</td>
<td class="xl26"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="97.7">391<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">31.30%<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">5.0<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 24pt;" height="32">
<td class="xl24"
style="border-top: medium none; height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 250px;">PeaZip,
7Z LZMA2 fastest<br>
</td>
<td class="xl25"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="12.1">15.7<br>
</td>
<td class="xl26"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="97.7">386<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">30.90%<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">4.1<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 24pt;" height="32">
<td class="xl24"
style="border-top: medium none; height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 250px;">PeaZip,
7Z Zstandard normal</td>
<td class="xl25"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="12.1">6.5<br>
</td>
<td class="xl26"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="97.7">398<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">31.86%<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">4.1<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 24pt;" height="32">
<td class="xl24"
style="border-top: medium none; height: 32px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 250px;">PeaZip,
7Z Brotli normal </td>
<td class="xl25"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="12.1">6.1<br>
</td>
<td class="xl26"
style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none; height: 32px; width: 100px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"
x:num="97.7">410<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">32.82%<br>
</td>
<td
style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">2.0<br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br>
<br>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><big>Faster than zip
compression
ratio
results</big></h2>
<br>
All alternative formats attained
better compression ratio results than ZIP Deflate at fastest
compression levels.<br>
All formats (except for 7Z Brotli) attained better
compression ratio than ZIP Delfate at normal compression level, with
LZMA2 being the best compressor followed by RAR PPMd and Zstandard..<br>
<br>
<h3><img
title="Compression ratio of algorithms comparable or faster than fastest Deflate implementation"
alt="better compression ratio than WinRar Deflate ZIP"
src="better-than-zip-compression-ratio.png"
style="width: 720px; height: 460px;"><br>
</h3>
<br>
<br>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><big>Faster than zip
compression
speed
results</big></h2>
<br>
<a name="zip_compression_speed_comparative"></a>All formats
compressed the input set significantly faster than
ZIP Deflate normal, and even faster than ZIP Deflate at fastest
compression level.<br>
7Z LZMA and RAR PPMd compression times are roughly comparable with ZIP
Deflate
at fastest compression level (with RAR being faster), but both
alternatives provides
vastly improved compression ratio.<br>
7Z Zstandard and 7Z Brotli at normal compression level are
approximatively 3x times
faster than ZIP Deflate at normal compression level, 2.5x times faster
than ZIP Deflate fastest level.<br>
<br>
<h3><img
title="Comparison of compression times faster than fastest Deflate ZIP implementation"
alt="faster compression than fastest zip implementation"
src="faster-than-zip-compression.png"
style="width: 720px; height: 460px;"><br>
</h3>
<br>
<br>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><big>Faster than zip
extraction
speed results</big></h2>
<br>
<a name="zip_extraction_speed_comparative"></a>All formats
decompressed the benchmark data significantly faster than
ZIP Deflate, either compressed at normal or fastest level.<br>
For extraction, 7Z LZMA2 at fastest level is nearly 2x faster than ZIP
Deflate, and slightly faster than RAR PPMd, reversing the performance
advantage RAR PPMd have in compression speed test.<br>
7Z Zstandard extraction speed at all levels overlaps with 7Z LZMA2,
while 7Z Brotli provides significantly faster extraction, the fastest
of the test, nearly 4x faster than ZIP Deflate range of speed.<br>
<br>
<h3><img
title="Comparison of extraction times faster than Deflate ZIP"
alt="faster extraction than fastest zip implementation"
src="faster-than-zip-extraction.png"
style="width: 720px; height: 460px;"></h3>
<br>
<br>
<big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Honorable mention:
ARC
format</span></big><br>
<br>
At minimum (1 on 9) compression level PeaZip with ARC format completed
compression test in 5.5 sec and extraction test in 2,7 sec, but created
a 447 MB archive which does not fall in the desired range, being larget
than the 429 MB output created by Deflate at minimum compression level.<br>
At 2 on 9 compression level ARC completed the compression test in 15.3
sec creating a 310 MB archive, which is an excellent compression ratio,
outperforming all other alternatives, but extraction needed 28.4 sec,
almost 4 times slower than Deflate.<br>
Due those drawbacks the ARC format was excluded from the test, but it
remains an extremely interesting archive format.<br>
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style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 960px; text-align: left;"
border="0" cellpadding="48" cellspacing="0">
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<td
style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: top;">
<h3><big><big><big><a name="fastest_compression_software"></a><a
href="fastest-compression-zip-deflate-benchmark.html#compressor_faster_than_winrar"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusions:
faster than Deflate</span><br>
</a></big></big></big></h3>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>While creating
Deflate-based ZIP archives remains an excellent choice due the
ubiquitous support from file archivers and file managers (and built-in
support in many operating systems), it is no longer the better choice
performances-wise.<br>
New algorithms performs better on modern architectures and scales
better in performances on multicore machines, providing better results
in terms of speed, especially for extraction, and compression ratio.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">What formats are faster
tha ZIP on modern hardware?</span><br>
With WinRar, creating a RAR (<span style="font-weight: bold;">PPMd </span>algorithm)
at fastest compression level resulted
in a smaller archive AND took less time.<br>
The same holds true with PeaZip with 7Z <span
style="font-weight: bold;">LZMA2 </span>at fastest compression level,
with
extraction being almost twice faster than Deflate and even faster than
with RAR PPMd, a bonus that is especially
important for content distribution.<br>
Switching 7Z compression to Brotli and Zstandard algorithms, which are
ground up designed for high performances, provides utter speed
improvements: both algorithms at normal compression level are able to
compete with ZIP Deflate in terms of compression ratio, but completing
the benchmark at almost
3 times faster compression speed.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a
name="zip_vs_zstandard_speed_comparative"></a>Zstandard</span>, which
provides a compression ratio even better than Deflate
normal, is twice as fast for extraction than ZIP Deflate.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a
name="zip_vs_brotli_speed_comparative"></a>Brotli</span>, which
provides a compression ratio intermediate from Deflate
normal and Deflate fastest, is almost 4 times faster for extraction
than ZIP Deflate.<br>
<br>
<big><a style="font-weight: bold;"
name="what_are_faster_tha_deflate_alternatives"></a><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusions in
brief:</span></big><br>
<ol>
<li>On modern machines using RAR or 7Z format at fastest
compression level provide faster compression, and especially faster
extraction, than using traditional ZIP format - even benchmarking
the fastest Deflate ZIP implementations and employing fastest
compression settings for Deflate.</li>
<li>While being faster, both RAR and 7Z LZMA2 at fastest
compression level also provide significantly better compression ratio
than Deflate ZIP.</li>
<li>New Brotli and Zstandard algorithms available in 7Z
provides further speed advantages over Deflate ZIP, while remaining
comparable or better in terms of compression ratio.</li>
</ol>
Learn more about how to <a href="7zip-files-utility.html">use Brotli
and Zstandard compression in 7z files</a>, <a
href="free-rar-create.html">how to create RAR archives</a> directly
from PeaZip GUI (providing WinRar is available on the machine), and <a
href="zip-files-utility.html">how to create ZIP archives</a>.<br>
<br>
<p style="font-weight: bold;">Synopsis: Fast compression
benchmark: faster than fastest ZIP. Comparative of
WinRar and PeaZip on RAR, 7Z LZMA2, Brotli, Zstandard performances and
speed. Wht is the fastest compression format, what is the fastest
compressor, which file archiver is faster. What are algorithms faster
than Deflate.<br>
</p>
<p style="font-weight: bold;">Topics: what are the fastest
compression and decompression algorithms, Deflate vs Brotli vs
Zstandard speed comparison, what are the compressors faster than zip
Deflate<br>
</p>
<p style="font-weight: bold;">PeaZip > Compression
benchmark > Fast compression: faster than fastest ZIP comparative<br>
</p>
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alt="faster extraction than fastest zip implementation"
src="titles.png" style="width: 129px; height: 2px;"><br>
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alt="peazip file compression software" src="titles.png"
style="width: 129px; height: 2px;"><br>
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name="peazip_cross_platform_archive_manager_app"></a>ABOUT<br
style="font-style: italic;">
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src="free-rar/extract-rar.png" style="width: 1px; height: 1px;"
vspace="3"><br style="font-style: italic;">
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target="_blank" href="https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases.atom">Releases
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title="PeaZip releases feed" src="extract-zip/rss16.png"
style="width: 24px; height: 24px;" align="middle"></small></td>
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target="_blank" href="https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/wiki">PeaZip
Wiki</a></small></td>
<td
style="text-align: right; width: 30px; vertical-align: middle;"><small><img
title="PeaZip Wiki online"
alt="Compression / decompression comparison with fastest ZIP"
src="free-zip/wikipedia.png" style="width: 24px; height: 24px;"
align="middle"></small></td>
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<td style="text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;"><small><a
href="mailto:giorgio.tani.software@gmail.com">Developer email</a></small></td>
<td
style="text-align: right; width: 30px; vertical-align: middle;"><small><img
alt="faster compression than fastest zip implementation"
title="Mail developer | Giorgio Tani" src="free-zip/mail.png"
style="width: 24px; height: 24px;"><br>
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href="peazip-more.html">Search knowledge-base</a><br>
</small></td>
<td
style="text-align: right; width: 30px; vertical-align: middle;"><small><img
alt="faster than Deflate" title="Search in PeaZip project domain"
src="extract-rar/rar-opener.png"
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 24px; height: 24px;" align="middle"></small></td>
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