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paq is a family of archivers with the best lossless compression ratios now
available across a wide variety of test data, according to several benchmarks.
A comparison of paq to other compression methods, on a 2GHz T3200, when
compressing a large text file:

Format      Size        Time (sec)  Memory
                comp    decomp
----------- ---------   --------------  -------
Uncompressed    3,152,896
compress    1,319,521   1.6 0.2  .1 MB
gzip -9         1,022,810   0.7 0.1  .1 MB
bzip2 -9    860,097     0.6 0.4   5 MB
p7zip (7z)  824,573     1.5 0.1 195 MB
xz -6       822,016     ?   ?     ?
zpaq c1 (fast)  806,959     2   2    38 MB
zpaq c2 (mid)   699,191     8   8   112 MB
zpaq c3 (max)   644,190     20  20  246 MB

The port uses the open ZPAQ specification, and contains: a public-domain C++
API for reading and writing ZPAQ compressed data to or from files or objects
in memory; serial and multi-threaded archivers;  extra preprocessors for
compression; and stubs for creating self-extracting archives.

WWW:    http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html