Here is a comparative table of how well the pack code
files (the main content - code, plus a little text and tables)
different wrappers on the ZX and PC.
The results of such experiments have not been published
Spectrum in the press and published operate mainly
legacy wrappers.
An asterisk indicates a program on the PC. For some of them
depakera for the Z80 is not.
depaker glukpack perfpack glubonus Col.Lines
naked file 0 6376 11142 1652 1231
MS Pack 195 5352 8986 1349 983
Bitbuster * 112? 5281 9099 1319 989
Pletter * 112 5244 8954 1326 975
Hrum 119 5238 8956 1297 970
MegaLZ * 110 5195 8883 1293 969
Hrust2 (QC) 181 5,195 8,798 1,304 976
Pucrunch * 255 5164 8797 1257 do not pack
Hrust1 225 5123 8740 1271 967
ZIP (zlib) * no 5013 8627 964 1249
ZIP (7zip) * no 4984 8552 962 1247
RAR 2.50 * 1968 4976 8479 1258 977
RIP 244 4969 8443 1262 977
mRIP 220 4970 8457 1252 974
ZXRAR 385 4959 8449 1250 967
LZMA (7zip) * no 4952 8406 960 1201
All depakery - excluding the initial transfer of data.
All archivers - excluding the archive structure.
Col.Lines - my version of the game Color Lines.
The remaining files - part of Mr Gluk Reset Service:
- Glubonus contains the CMOS setup, Help and tests run on
Reset + button.
- Glukpack contains the main part glyukservisa.
- Perfpack includes Perfect Commander. A compressed file is
in RAM while running glyukservisa menus (and because of this
memory under the new bells and whistles constantly lacking - in
Gluk6.3 left only 3 bytes, while that of Perfect'a even had to
throw help).
Now glyukservise used Hrust 1.3 reasons
speed run. In Gluk5.3 used MS Pack, which is still
faster, but loses Hrust'u by file size, since
optimized code is not under, and under the text (as well as
Hrust 2.x).
*
In Packer Hrum and Hrust1 search strategy - search through. If
would use at least Lazy Evaluation, packed files
would become smaller. There are sources of these packers (as
well as Laser Compact 5.2) in the language C (by Nikita
Burnashev, 2005). I hope someone to finalize ...
*
Since the last issue ZXRar package was heavily modified.
The programs themselves, their sources and lists of changes can
be found in the appendix. Since mRIP in the shell has not yet
formally release (although he is almost 4 years), it is also
here. Glitches corrected similarly ZXRar (see Errata).
Alone Coder
