X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=c773ccac5b01b9160a35459f66f48fe9c5050824;hp=db2e67b03bdb0dfcdea9b16fbbf4487b6e20aa52;hb=e6f045aee3beec549744e7f1bd3ba04a75ed67e8;hpb=bacc0c49b2d9640447e4d4d599e2f09b006afdc0 diff --git a/README b/README index db2e67b0..c773ccac 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ INTRODUCTION -This is wimlib version 1.8.3-BETA (September 2015). wimlib is a C library for +This is wimlib version 1.9.0-BETA (January 2016). 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, @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ for Debian and RPM packaging are in the debian/ and rpm/ directories. To install wimlib and wimlib-imagex on Windows, just download and extract the ZIP file containing the latest binaries. See README.WINDOWS for more details. -All official wimlib releases are available from http://wimlib.net. +All official wimlib releases are available from https://wimlib.net. WIM FILES @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ file extension rather than ".wim". They are supported in wimlib since v1.6.0. IMAGEX IMPLEMENTATION wimlib itself is a C library, and it provides a documented public API (See: -http://wimlib.net/apidoc) for other programs to use. However, it is also +https://wimlib.net/apidoc) for other programs to use. However, it is also distributed with a command-line program called "wimlib-imagex" that uses this library to implement an imaging tool similar to Microsoft's ImageX. wimlib-imagex supports almost all the capabilities of Microsoft's ImageX as well @@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ possible, the results with the Microsoft equivalent are included. ============================================================================= | None [1] || 361,314,224 in 2.7s | 361,315,338 in 3.0s | | XPRESS [2] || 137,954,729 in 3.0s | 140,457,081 in 6.4s | - | XPRESS (slow) [3] || 135,214,004 in 8.8s | N/A | + | XPRESS (slow) [3] || 135,147,054 in 8.0s | N/A | | LZX (quick) [4] || 130,098,933 in 3.3s | N/A | - | LZX (normal) [5] || 126,369,877 in 10.1s | 127,293,110 in 19.2s | - | LZX (slow) [6] || 125,945,733 in 17.7s | N/A | + | LZX (normal) [5] || 126,310,241 in 9.9s | 127,293,110 in 18.5s | + | LZX (slow) [6] || 125,884,919 in 17.4s | N/A | | LZMS (non-solid) [7] || 116,150,698 in 23.4s | N/A | | LZMS (solid) [8] || 88,108,326 in 55.6s | 88,771,800 in 90.9s | | "WIMBoot" [9] || 166,892,801 in 3.0s | 169,108,689 in 8.9s | - | "WIMBoot" (slow) [10] || 165,022,523 in 7.3s | N/A | + | "WIMBoot" (slow) [10] || 165,004,333 in 7.8s | N/A | ============================================================================= Notes: @@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ formats/programs: | ZIP (Info-ZIP, -9) | 732,297 | | WIM (wimlib, LZX quick) | 686,420 | | WIM (WIMGAPI, LZX) | 651,866 | - | WIM (wimlib, LZX normal) | 624,142 | - | WIM (wimlib, LZX slow) | 619,514 | + | WIM (wimlib, LZX normal) | 623,718 | + | WIM (wimlib, LZX slow) | 619,382 | | WIM (wimlib, LZMS non-solid) | 581,046 | | tar.bz2 (bzip, default) | 565,008 | | tar.bz2 (bzip, -9) | 565,008 | @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ mode), to ensure a fast and feature-rich implementation of each platform/mode. wimlib is mainly used on x86 and x86_64 CPUs, but it should also work on a number of other GCC-supported 32-bit or 64-bit architectures. It has been -tested on the ARM architecture. +tested on the ARM and MIPS architectures. Currently, gcc and clang are the only supported compilers. A few nonstandard extensions are used in the code.