The test set is Dimes, a java application.
Almost 3/4 of size is zipped already, so overall compression ratio is poor.
Code:
Files Size Files no.
Total 10569844 103
.jar 7335360 13
Exacutables 1465270 15
text 1197959 23
.ico 410290 7
.zip 68233 1
.jpg 42639 5
.gif 33267 29
.class 11203 5
others 5623 5
The best results:
Code:
Archiver Size Time
quick -1 8375483 0.093
quick -0 8341053 0.125
quick -2 8296855 0.140
quick -3 8216127 0.234
NanoZip -cf 8006016 0.328
thor e3 7920016 0.453
slug 7899756 0.468
NanoZip -cd 6991119 0.671
FreeArc -m2 6941817 0.984
NanoZip -cD 6895695 1.422
FreeArc -m3 6888428 1.890
FreeArc -m3 -ms 6880879 2.687
FreeArc -m4 -ms 6854155 2.813
FreeArc -m7x -ms 6850379 3.328
FreeArc -m9x -ms 6850379 3.328
FreeArc -m4 6838437 3.390
FreeArc -m5 -ma- -ms 6834065 4.594
FreeArc -max -ms 6814810 6.141
FreeArc -max 6805760 7.719
CCM 2 6787225 11.500
CCM 3 6781485 11.875
CCM 4 6777505 12.250
CCM 5 6774772 12.688
CCMX 5 6771811 13.781
FreeArc -max -ma- -ms 5164156 26.782
As expected, precomp helps a lot...if you let it do the job, it seems to be used by FreeArc only with -ma- switch.