Here are the benchmarks of the most popular compression
utilitties (for data), listed from most popular on the right, to
least popluar on the left. Different compression programs proform
differently with their algorithms depending on the type of files
that you are compressing. For my benchmark I have included 3 diferent
file types.
The most popular and common format in
use today. There are several different programs on most if not all
platforms (Operating Systems) that will create ZIPs.
RAR
This format came out a little over a
year ago and has climbed its way up the line of poularity very quickly.
ARJ
Another common format, but not as common
now because most of the ARJ programs are made for DOS.
LHA
This use to be a common format, but like
most of these I drifted away.
