Hey everyone,
This is a simple DOS archiver benchmark. The only requirement to quality is that the archiver be DOS 16-bit.
I've taken the reference files (one by one) from http://compressionratings.com and stored them in a TAR file (since some of hte archivers in this test can only do one file at a time).
If there are any archivers that meet these requirements that you think I missed, PM it to me and I'll test it and add it to the table below.
UPDATES (01/06/13):
- Added BSA and Huffman Compression Engine II (LH7) by Joe Jared.
- Added RAR, SQZ, ACE, UHARC, URBAN, JAR, AIN, UC2 and ARJ.
- Changed PKZip from 2.04g to 2.50.
- Memory usage has been eliminated from the benchmark because the previous means of measuring memory usage were inaccurate.
No code has to be inserted here.
*NOTES*
- The 16-bit version of ACE will not permit me to use the max dictionary size (4096).
A ZIP archive with the TAR file used for this test is attached.