LRZIP - a new up and coming compression?

Long Range ZIP / Lzma RZIP

It seems to combine the best parts of various algorithms for large files. One big downfall is the amount of memory it needs to create the highly compressed archives, but it is needed to be able to get the results it gets.

Very interesting to keep an eye on development though and very handy if you are running tight on disk space and not on RAM. Thankfully you don't need much ram to uncompress the archives.

You can check out the website here.

A good example from the README file:

Uncompressed: 616.99 MB
gzip: 207.97 MB
bzip2 -9: 183.57 MB
lzma -9: 93.18 MB
lrzip -M: 78.88 MB

Impressive.