Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 4 months agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1573arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squareIllecors@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agotar was nearly and adult when zip was born.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoSee my reply here: https://midwest.social/comment/10257041 The two aren’t really equivalent. They make different tradeoffs. The scheme of “compress individual files, then archive” from GP is what zip does. Tar does “archive first, then compress the whole thing”.
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was nearly and adult whenzip
was born.See my reply here: https://midwest.social/comment/10257041
The two aren’t really equivalent. They make different tradeoffs. The scheme of “compress individual files, then archive” from GP is what zip does. Tar does “archive first, then compress the whole thing”.