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Zip compression comparison

Comparaison d’utilitaires libres de compression au format .zip (utilisable pour fournir une WebExtension à Mozilla). Dilvulgâchis : zip est largement suffisant et bien plus rapide.

$ du --exclude .git meta-press-ext
2672 meta-press-ext (1)
1 The size of the sample to be compressed is 2,7Mo, it contains various compressed and uncompressed .js files, pictures .png, fonts .woff2, HTML and CSS, two vim .swp files…

1. zip common command from www.info-zip.org

zip Debian-based package.

$  zip -9 -x \*.git\* -v -r `date +%F_%X`_zip meta-press-ext (1)
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total bytes=2569082, compressed=922644 -> 64% savings (2)
1 use date to set a timestamp in file name
2 916ko ; time: 0,27s user 0,02s system 99% cpu 0,288 total

2. 7z 7zip command from www.7-zip.org

p7zip Debian-based package.

$ 7z a -tzip -mx=9 -x\!meta-press-ext/.git -x\!meta-press-ext/js/month_nb/.git `date +%F_%X`_7zip meta-press-ext
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Archive size: 911448 bytes (891 KiB) (1)
1 892ko ; time: 6,27s user 0,02s system 351% cpu 1,792 total (6x slower for 97% of zip)

3. zopfli fork by Mr_KrzYch00

To install :

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MrKrzYch00/zopfli
$ cd zopfli && make zopfli
$ archive_name=`date +%F_%X`_zopfli
$ rsync -av --exclude \*.git\* meta-press-ext/ /tmp/$archive_name/ (1)
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Total transferred file size: 2,569,082 bytes
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$ cd /tmp && zopfli/zopfli --t`nproc` --zip --dir $archive_name (2)
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Output size: 898416 (877K) (3)
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1 use rsync to select files to compress
2 --t for multi-threading ; this was not working, I had only one thread in every cases
3 878ko ; time: 52,46s user 3,16s system 91% cpu 1:00,57 total (208x slower for 95,8% of zip)