X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=25fe9bb1bb6caad6efc4e697fb4f33fe4d7e3bac;hb=bf06d7c97be31ca199d19af76cdfd2dc5c38c6de;hp=e54be618ef8c0711c8d14acf1cea2aa0f404410d;hpb=7ede26591f8fc14b94b40ad079d4e0d2824efaff;p=wimlib diff --git a/README b/README index e54be618..25fe9bb1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ INTRODUCTION -This is wimlib version 1.8.0-BETA (February 2015). wimlib is a C library for +This is wimlib version 1.8.1 (May 2015). wimlib is a C library for creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM files). wimlib and its command-line frontend 'wimlib-imagex' provide a free and cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's WIMGAPI, ImageX, @@ -65,17 +65,12 @@ commands and their syntax. For additional documentation: COMPRESSION RATIO wimlib (and wimlib-imagex) can create XPRESS, LZX, or LZMS compressed WIM files. -wimlib includes its own compression codecs and does not use the compression API -available on some versions of Windows. - -I have gradually been improving the compression codecs in wimlib. For all three -codecs, they now usually outperform and outcompress the equivalent Microsoft -implementations. Although results will vary depending on the data being -compressed, in the table below I present the results for a common use case: -compressing an x86 Windows PE image. Each row displays the compression type, -the size of the resulting WIM file in bytes, and how many seconds it took to -create the file. When applicable, the results with the equivalent Microsoft -implementation in WIMGAPI is included. +wimlib's compression codecs usually outperform and outcompress their Microsoft +equivalents. Although results will vary depending on the data being compressed, +the table below shows results for a common use case: creating an x86 Windows PE +image ("boot.wim"). Each row shows the compression type, the size of the +resulting WIM file in bytes, and the time it took to create the file. When +possible, the results with the Microsoft equivalent are included. ============================================================================= | Compression || wimlib (v1.8.0) | WIMGAPI (Windows 8.1) |