Re: (OT) PowerArchiver 7-Zip Compression

From: Will DeWitt Jr. (edge_at_NOSPAM.icehouse.net)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: 27 Oct 2004 21:25:52 -0700

Leo Saguisag (Borland) wrote:

> The compression size definitely looks good. Do you know if anyone has
> benchmarked the time it takes to compress, though? I could not find
> any information along those lines on the PowerArchiver website.

It takes a bit longer, IIRC, to compress using 7-zip, but the big
downfall of 7-zip is memory consumption during compression/extraction.
There's a warning in the InnoSetup documentation mentioning how much
memory can be used when making a new install and depending on the
setting it can consume > 100MB of memory.

Will 

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