October 7, 2002 Macintosh Edition
October 7, 2002 Macintosh Edition
The specifications and configuration of the test computer can be found here.
The executable file test includes three files:
The links to download these test files can be found here.
Legend
+ - New program tested
B - Best compression (smallest compressed file)
F - Fastest compression time
Q - Quickest extraction time
O - Best overall (smallest overall score - calculated by adding compress
time, extract time, and time it would take to transfer the compressed file over a 28,800bps network)
+HQX - means that the test files were compressed and then BASE-64 encoded.
+TAR - means that the test files were stored together in one TAR file first and then compressed.
+UU - means that the test files were compressed and then UU encoded.
| ACT 2.0 Executable Test | ||||||||
| Total Files Size (bytes): | 4,938,680 | |||||||
| Name | Switches |
Compress |
Extract |
Compressed |
Overall |
Compress |
Bits per |
|
|
(seconds) |
(seconds) |
(bytes) |
(seconds) |
(%) |
(b/B) |
|||
| +BO | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> SITX | (Max) |
12.08 |
10.07 |
1,956,304 |
565.57 |
60.39 |
3.1690 |
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> SITX | (Med) |
12.20 |
10.05 |
1,956,304 |
565.67 |
60.39 |
3.1690 |
| MacRAR 2.5b5 | -m4 -mm -md1024 -s |
106.53 |
2.32 |
1,961,180 |
653.62 |
60.29 |
3.1768 |
|
| Q | MacRAR 2.5b5 | -m4 -mm -md1024 |
96.68 |
2.07 |
1,962,904 |
644.00 |
60.25 |
3.1796 |
| MacRAR 2.5b5 | -mm -md1024 |
72.74 |
2.14 |
1,965,293 |
620.79 |
60.21 |
3.1835 |
|
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> SIT | (Max) |
14.85 |
10.07 |
2,068,095 |
599.39 |
58.12 |
3.3500 |
|
| BZIP2 0.0b2+TAR | 400k |
14.44 |
7.95 |
2,087,672 |
602.30 |
57.73 |
3.3817 |
|
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> ZIP | (Max) |
11.46 |
2.62 |
2,088,310 |
594.17 |
57.72 |
3.3828 |
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> GZIP+TAR | (Max) |
13.14 |
2.67 |
2,088,647 |
595.99 |
57.71 |
3.3833 |
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> BZIP+TAR | (Fast) |
12.02 |
3.96 |
2,095,010 |
597.93 |
57.58 |
3.3936 |
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> BZIP+TAR | (Max) |
13.14 |
4.13 |
2,100,123 |
600.64 |
57.48 |
3.4019 |
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> BZIP+TAR | (Max) |
14.71 |
7.14 |
2,100,404 |
605.30 |
57.47 |
3.4024 |
|
| BZIP2 0.0b2+TAR | 900k |
15.47 |
8.29 |
2,107,111 |
609.07 |
57.33 |
3.4132 |
|
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> BZIP+TAR | (Fast) |
13.05 |
7.02 |
2,121,812 |
609.46 |
57.04 |
3.4371 |
|
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> ZIP | (Max) |
10.44 |
4.39 |
2,138,386 |
608.83 |
56.70 |
3.4639 |
|
| PKZIP 2.03 | (Max) |
25.04 |
4.65 |
2,138,592 |
623.74 |
56.70 |
3.4642 |
|
| SmartZip 1.0.1 | (none) |
12.18 |
4.14 |
2,139,725 |
610.69 |
56.67 |
3.4661 |
|
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> GZIP+TAR | (Max) |
13.03 |
5.08 |
2,141,473 |
612.96 |
56.64 |
3.4689 |
|
| MacGZIP 1.1 + TAR | (Level 9) |
11.30 |
4.39 |
2,143,788 |
611.19 |
56.59 |
3.4726 |
|
| ZIPIT 2.1 | (Level 9) |
10.77 |
2.94 |
2,144,123 |
609.30 |
56.59 |
3.4732 |
|
| PKZIP 2.03 | (Normal) |
13.89 |
4.63 |
2,149,563 |
615.62 |
56.47 |
3.4820 |
|
| MacGZIP 1.1 + TAR | (Level 6) |
6.80 |
4.37 |
2,150,500 |
608.53 |
56.46 |
3.4835 |
|
| ZIPIT 2.1 | (Level 5) |
5.32 |
2.89 |
2,165,160 |
609.64 |
56.16 |
3.5073 |
|
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> SIT | (Fast) |
6.89 |
3.58 |
2,223,206 |
628.03 |
54.98 |
3.6013 |
|
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> SITX | (Fast) |
13.17 |
3.51 |
2,233,440 |
637.08 |
54.78 |
3.6179 |
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> ZIP | (Fast) |
5.78 |
2.46 |
2,233,493 |
628.65 |
54.78 |
3.6180 |
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> GZIP+TAR | (Fast) |
7.92 |
2.60 |
2,235,487 |
631.49 |
54.74 |
3.6212 |
| PKZIP 2.03 | (Fast) |
8.73 |
4.89 |
2,244,631 |
637.13 |
54.55 |
3.6360 |
|
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> ZIP | (Fast) |
3.92 |
4.79 |
2,287,408 |
644.10 |
53.68 |
3.7053 |
|
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> GZIP+TAR | (Fast) |
7.61 |
5.01 |
2,337,419 |
661.90 |
52.67 |
3.7863 |
|
| F | ZIPIT 2.1 | (Level 1) |
4.29 |
2.73 |
2,344,065 |
658.15 |
52.54 |
3.7971 |
| MacGZIP 1.1 + TAR | (Level 1) |
4.78 |
4.46 |
2,345,688 |
660.82 |
52.50 |
3.7997 |
|
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> LHA | (Max) |
10.18 |
3.37 |
2,276,767 |
645.99 |
53.90 |
3.6881 |
|
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> LHA | (Fast) |
12.67 |
5.97 |
2,320,000 |
663.08 |
53.02 |
3.7581 |
|
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> SIT+HQX | (Max) |
15.15 |
12.35 |
2,659,414 |
766.23 |
46.15 |
4.3079 |
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> SIT+HQX | (Max) |
18.04 |
12.02 |
2,811,765 |
811.11 |
43.07 |
4.5547 |
|
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> ZIP+UU | (Max) |
13.39 |
4.93 |
2,877,261 |
817.56 |
41.74 |
4.6608 |
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> ZIP+UU | (Max) |
12.35 |
6.90 |
2,946,255 |
837.65 |
40.34 |
4.7725 |
|
| + | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> TAR | (none) |
2.21 |
1.15 |
4,941,824 |
1376.09 |
-0.06 |
8.0051 |
| Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> TAR | (none) |
4.02 |
2.42 |
4,941,824 |
1379.17 |
-0.06 |
8.0051 |
|
| MacTAR 4.2.1 | (none) |
1.59 |
1.66 |
4,945,920 |
1377.12 |
-0.15 |
8.0117 |
|
| Best Compression: | Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> SITX | |||||||
| Fastest Compression: | ZIPIT 2.1 | |||||||
| Quickest Extraction: | MacRAR 2.5b5 | |||||||
| Best Overall: | Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> SIT |
Legend
+ - New program tested
B - Best compression (smallest compressed file)
F - Fastest compression time
Q - Quickest extraction time
O - Best overall (smallest overall score - calculated by adding compress
time, extract time, and time it would take to transfer the compressed file over a 28,800bps network)
+HQX - means that the test files were compressed and then BASE-64 encoded.
+TAR - means that the test files were stored together in one TAR file first and then compressed.
+UU - means that the test files were compressed and then UU encoded.
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