[fpc-pascal] helpsystem, some numbers

[Eduardo Morras]

At 11:38 28/10/2008, you wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Eduardo Morras <emorras at xroff.net> wrote:
> >
> > In fact deflate/zip is 18-19 years old and there are lot of better
> > compression algorithm, like LZX. I think there is one implemented in Pascal
> > (ABC if memory don't fails).
>
>I'm still trying to find a compression algorithm that beats whatever
>7-zip uses. The results are by magnitudes smaller than any other
>compression algorithm I have seen.

Well, there are some ones. There is the PAQ family that are the best 
now. Of course they are research compressors mostly written in C++ 
but they exist. There is a freepascal/lazarus app that implements a 
GUI for this and other algorithms, at 
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/  (i'm not the developer).

HTH