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Compression ratio Comparison

FILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 for Windows and Google Earth 3.0.0616 for Windows after full installation.

Archiver	Mozilla Firefox		Google Earth
	161 files 15,684,168 bytes		115 files 23,530,652 bytes
	Compressed size	Ratio	Compressed size	Ratio
7-Zip 4.23 (7z format)	4621135	100%	6109183	100%
WinRAR 3.50	5021556	109%	6824892	112%
CABARC 5.1	5131393	111%	7434325	122%
WinZip 10.0 beta (maximum-PPMd)	5277118	114%	8200708	134%
7-Zip 4.23 (zip format)	6222627	135%	8909446	146%
WinZip 10.0 beta (maximum-portable)	6448666	140%	9153898	150%

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