Archive Comparison Test - by Jeff Gilchrist
October 7, 2002 Macintosh Edition


Worms2 (Game Demo) Compression Test

The specifications and configuration of the test computer can be found here.

The Worms2 test is the game demo by Team17 and includes 159 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 Game (Worms2) Test              
  Total Files Size (bytes): 16,969,910            
  Name Switches

Compress
Time

Extract
Time

Compressed
Size

Overall
Score

Compress
Ratio

Bits per
Byte

     

(seconds)

(seconds)

(bytes)

(seconds)

(%)

(b/B)

B MacRAR 2.5b5 -m4 -mm -md1024 -r

159.96

20.18

8,521,788

2547.30

49.78

4.0174

O MacRAR 2.5b5 -mm -md1024 -r

144.35

20.83

8,527,574

2533.95

49.75

4.0201

  MacRAR 2.5b5 -m4 -mm -md1024 -s -r

200.28

20.01

8,570,840

2601.08

49.49

4.0405

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> SITX (Med)

55.94

46.02

9,008,563

2604.34

46.91

4.2468

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> SITX (Max)

58.00

50.32

9,019,790

2613.82

46.85

4.2521

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> GZIP+TAR (Max)

41.57

17.98

9,061,764

2576.71

46.60

4.2719

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> ZIP (Max)

40.26

43.78

9,122,397

2618.04

46.24

4.3005

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> SIT (Max)

62.35

46.79

9,183,347

2660.07

45.88

4.3292

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> BZIP+TAR (Fast)

42.96

22.94

9,193,515

2619.65

45.82

4.3340

  BZIP2 0.0b2+TAR 400k

56.38

30.92

9,197,384

2642.13

45.80

4.3359

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> BZIP+TAR (Max)

44.52

21.40

9,201,650

2621.93

45.78

4.3379

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> BZIP+TAR (Max)

66.72

40.08

9,216,035

2666.81

45.69

4.3446

  PKZIP 2.03 (Max)

76.55

20.70

9,224,841

2659.71

45.64

4.3488

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> GZIP+TAR (Max)

49.83

32.18

9,229,163

2645.67

45.61

4.3508

  MacGZIP 1.1 + TAR (Level 9)

31.26

16.77

9,239,867

2614.66

45.55

4.3559

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> ZIP (Max)

24.48

29.88

9,245,823

2622.64

45.52

4.3587

  ZIPIT 2.1 (Level 9)

35.76

48.30

9,246,202

2652.45

45.51

4.3589

  SmartZip 1.0.1 (none)

34.00

16.73

9,249,201

2619.95

45.50

4.3603

Q MacGZIP 1.1 + TAR (Level 6)

21.75

16.50

9,260,028

2610.48

45.43

4.3654

  BZIP2 0.0b2+TAR 900k

56.12

31.57

9,262,001

2660.47

45.42

4.3663

  PKZIP 2.03 (Normal)

47.18

19.85

9,267,856

2641.43

45.39

4.3691

  ZIPIT 2.1 (Level 5)

24.49

45.02

9,303,816

2653.90

45.17

4.3860

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> BZIP+TAR (Fast)

61.23

39.25

9,319,190

2689.14

45.08

4.3933

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> GZIP+TAR (Fast)

26.62

18.45

9,320,727

2634.16

45.07

4.3940

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> SITX (Fast)

47.76

21.12

9,360,995

2669.16

44.84

4.4130

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> ZIP (Fast)

22.58

23.88

9,371,648

2649.70

44.77

4.4180

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> SIT (Fast)

26.30

20.01

9,394,780

2655.97

44.64

4.4289

  PKZIP 2.03 (Fast)

35.40

21.13

9,467,541

2686.40

44.21

4.4632

F Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> ZIP (Fast)

14.76

32.51

9,506,068

2687.84

43.98

4.4814

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> GZIP+TAR (Fast)

39.78

33.73

9,571,955

2732.39

43.59

4.5124

  MacGZIP 1.1 + TAR (Level 1)

19.18

17.07

9,590,313

2700.23

43.49

4.5211

  ZIPIT 2.1 (Level 1)

22.21

48.76

9,590,793

2735.08

43.48

4.5213

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> LHA (Max)

39.26

20.03

9,686,124

2749.88

42.92

4.5663

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> LHA (Fast)

50.17

34.01

9,833,761

2815.78

42.05

4.6359

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> SIT+HQX (Max)

66.12

62.39

12,261,726

3534.55

27.74

5.7805

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> SIT+HQX (Max)

70.27

54.40

12,480,921

3591.59

26.45

5.8838

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> ZIP+UU (Max)

44.45

37.40

12,568,670

3573.15

25.94

5.9252

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> ZIP+UU (Max)

31.63

38.04

12,738,724

3608.20

24.93

6.0053

+ Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 -> TAR (none)

8.69

18.92

17,095,168

4776.27

-0.74

8.0590

  Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> TAR (none)

29.27

24.13

17,116,672

4808.03

-0.86

8.0692

  MacTAR 4.2.1 (none)

7.09

7.13

17,100,800

4764.44

-0.77

8.0617

                 
  Best Compression: MacRAR 2.5b5            
  Fastest Compression: Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 -> ZIP            
  Quickest Extraction: MacGZIP 1.1 + TAR            
  Best Overall: MacRAR 2.5b5            

 

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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