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Lester L. Martin II wrote:
> Dear Mr. Keep,
> I believe 7z to be much better than the ones you described as it has better compression although I haven't look at zip and tar and compression methods that deeply. I've always judged compression by how small it gets my files.  The way you judge it seems to be more interesting.
> Lester L. Martin II
> Daniel Keep Wrote:
> 

While 7z is a great compression format, (de)compressing is much slower 
than the zlib codec. Furthermore, 7z is LGPL and zlib has a BSD style 
license. tar doesn't do compression by itself, it's for archiving only.