INTRODUCTION
-This is wimlib version 1.7.5-BETA (January 2015). wimlib is a C library for
+This is wimlib version 1.8.0-BETA (February 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,
implementation in WIMGAPI is included.
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- | Compression || wimlib (v1.7.5-BETA) | WIMGAPI (Windows 8.1) |
+ | Compression || wimlib (v1.8.0) | WIMGAPI (Windows 8.1) |
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| None [1] || 361,314,224 in 2.4s | 361,315,338 in 4.5s |
| XPRESS [2] || 138,218,750 in 3.0s | 140,457,436 in 6.0s |
The compression ratio provided by wimlib is also competitive with commonly used
archive formats. Below are file sizes that result when the Canterbury corpus is
-compressed with wimlib (v1.7.5), WIMGAPI (Windows 8.1), and some other
+compressed with wimlib (v1.8.0), WIMGAPI (Windows 8.1), and some other
formats/programs:
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